Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honest Broker. Ayub stoutly maintains that his cozying up to Red China will not damage U.S. interests in Asia. "For your sakes we stuck our necks out on every bloody occasion," the Sandhurst-trained ex-soldier told recent American visitors. "You can say we damned well had to because you were giving us aid. But our security is important too. Merely because you are not on friendly terms with China, you expect all your friends to do likewise...
...Sold Soldier. Neapolitan eyes glisten whenever the citizens recall the happy, happy days of the mid-1940s. An estimated one-third of the millions of tons of U.S. supplies landed...
Naples vanished into thin air. It was then that the street-wise Neapolitan children called scugnizzi (spinning tops) began their practice of buying and selling American G.I.s. One would pick up a soldier, promise him everything, and lead him into back streets. Another kid might buy the prospect for 300 lire, and he was thus passed from hand to hand until an older scugnizzo decided it was time to act. The G.I. was first made muscio (dead drunk), and once he had passed out, his clothes were literally sold off his back, beginning with shoes and ending with underwear. That...
...Gibraltarians are a hardy and tough-minded race whose blood lines stretch to every Mediterranean port from Genoa and Malta to Athens and Alexandria; many, like Molly Bloom herself, are descended from Spanish mothers and British soldier fathers. Though Spanish is the common tongue and the Gibraltarian palate approves fiery paella and wine, the citizens want no part of Spain's political system or sovereignty. Instead the elected members of the Legislative Council, led by Chief Member Sir Joshua Hassan, want full internal self-government in a free association with Britain. And they want Britain finally to take countermeasures...
Slowly, under the ceaseless threats of German minefields and strafing from Allied planes, the barriers between men are obliterated. In the absurdity of their situation, they discover a common humanity, a measure of individual worth. Eying a comrade, one soldier grumbles: "Doctors call his case paranoia. The army calls him a corporal." The dialogue is rough in texture, true in tone. And though Taxi arrives at its destination bearing no new arguments against the futility of war, Director Denys de la Patellière reinforces the old ones with soundness and dash...