Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their worlds and dreams upon him. The females are not totally to blame, however. Strindberg makes use of the early psychological theories of his time to show this father's personal weaknesses, subconscious mental cancers in his marriage, and obstacles to his fulfillment in his career as a soldier and scientist. These psychological afflictions are a fault in a seemingly healthy and promising individual: "The Father" concerns the cracking of that fault and the destruction...
...Prague's historic Hradčany Castle, the Soviet visitors demanded a pledge from the Czechoslovak government that there would be no recurrence of anti-Soviet outbursts. Otherwise the Soviets would use their own, all-too-familiar methods for imposing order. President Ludvik Svoboda, the gray-haired old soldier, rejected the ultimatum as an "unacceptable threat." But Dubček, the unhappy compromiser, sensed the gravity of the crisis and gave the Soviets his pledge. Said one Czechoslovak who attended the meeting: "It was a cold, tough session, with the Russians making it clear that they would not tolerate...
...planned the maneuvers of 270,000 troops in Louisiana that fall so ably that he won the attention of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, who was searching diligently for men to direct the battles he foresaw. The blunt fact remained that after 30 years as a professional soldier, Eisenhower's permanent rank had gone no higher than lieutenant colonel. So little was he known that photo captions of the exercises listed him as "Lieut. Colonel D. D. Ersenbeing...
...role as statesman-soldier, Ike was not hurt by his famous modesty. Somehow, in his slow, frustrating progression as a peacetime Army officer, he had gained such self-confidence that he could let subordinates win glory and medals, taking to himself the satisfaction of achievement. "Your job," Eisenhower told S.L.A. Marshall, the European theater's chief historian in 1945, "is to determine the truth, and I will settle for that. You are not here to protect my reputation." Well aware of his worth, he was not falsely humble, but the bravura of a MacArthur, a Patton or a Montgomery distressed...
Nevertheless, Nigerian mortar bombs and small-arms fire continued to splash about aimlessly, killing here, falling sterile there. A soldier crawling through the bush was hit between the eyes. He stumbled to his feet when he must have been already dead and jerked about in a reflexive dance of death. Then he collapsed, the puppet strings finally cut. A group of wounded who should rightly have been in catatonic shock stumbled down a path under a squall of incoming fire, their intestines peeking pinkly between their fingers. The colonel walked through it all with quiet confidence. He questioned a second...