Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tennis coach Ed Serus last night, "but tommorow we'll be going against the Ivy League and I'm afraid its going to be a different story." With this statement he summed up quite well the prospects for B.U. when they oppose the Crimson this afternoon on the Soldier's Field courts...
...result of all such duplicity, said Old Soldier Navarre, was that he had to lay down an astonishing rule in Indo-China: "Paris must never be kept informed. We knew, in fact, that any military operation known in Park, would not surprise the enemy. It was?about like handing the burglar the combination of the safe he was going to crack. Treason was everywhere...
...Communist heroes go these days, a slim, hatchet-faced Hungarian army lieutenant named Sandor Iharos is a singular exception. For one thing, he is not a Communist Party member. All he knows about Marxism, he says, he learned by rote in school. And as a soldier he fights strictly from a desk. All Sandor really has to do is run, and he does that so well that he now holds five world records (from 1,500 to 5,000 meters). In sports-happy Hungary, excitement boils any time he shucks his sweat pants and gets to work, for Sandor...
Soon after their outfit gets a toe hold on the Italian boot, Paratrooper Lieut. Sam Loggins tabs his radioman T/5 Britt Harris as a grandstand soldier. Against Loggins' orders, the corporal guides some medics into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...
...mimeographed leaflet signed "The Leader Digenis," gave Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Harding its warning several weeks ago. Last week at a luncheon at Nicosia's Government House, an intelligence colonel told Sir John flatly that the underground was plotting his early assassination. Scoffed short, peppery Soldier Harding: "If they do attempt it, they will have to deal with my army, and that is no trifling matter...