Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From 100 yds., we could see the Chinese clearly. They wore long yellow overcoats with red stars on the collars and the peaked caps of enlisted men. Beyond them another group of Chinese marched up and down, and looking up the ridge, we saw a soldier pop up from concealment and then down again. "The Chinkos have two poles-a red one and a white one-to signal each other," said the junior Indian officer. But we didn't get to see them: as we approached, all the Chinese had fallen into prone positions behind the rocks, disappearing against...
...these two novellas Germany's Heinrich Böll (The Clown), like a brain surgeon performing an exploratory operation, opens up two representative Germans of the war generation: one a merchant, one a soldier. Without comment he inspects the devastation within them. Without comment he sews them up again. Diagnosis: something is rotten in the State of Germany...
Upon a Tractor, a TV special promoting the U.N., she jumps on the Bond-wagon with a chase across several mythical countries, disguising herself as a soldier with brown wig and handlebar mustache, leaping off a pier into the Tiber River-all to elude villains long enough to plead a cause before the U.N. The real James Bond would have had no use for any one of them. He liked his girls dependent. As he observed in Goldfinger, women of the Jane Bond type are simply "unhappy sexual misfits-barren and full of frustrations, girls whose hormones have got mixed...
...Eero Saarinen's Vivian Beaumont Theater, Max Abramovitz' Philharmonic Hall, Wallace K. Harrison's Metropolitan Opera House and Pietro Belluschi's yet-to-be-built structure for the Juilliard School of Music. "I didn't want my piece to stand there like a wooden soldier," says Moore...
...countryside in search of targets. The toll was no doubt considerable, however. The pressure from the air has prevented the Viet Cong from massing as effectively as they otherwise might, and has made regular sleep difficult for many a V.C. trooper. "It is terrible and miserable," wrote one Red soldier killed at Due Co before he could mail his latest letter. "Airplanes bomb and strafe, and we can do nothing about it. The fighting situation is tough, too serious and difficult. Sometimes we can muster only one platoon for military operations. I am sick almost every day with stomach pains...