Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These internal problems, however, are dwarfed by the Vietnam war, which brought Lee to see President Johnson. Lee is not the kind of man who would admit that his future rests entirely in America's hands. On the contrary, he told his Harvard audience, "If you leave, we'll soldier on. We'll try. I'm only telling you the awful consequence which withdrawal would mean." One gets the feeling that Lee believes those "awful consequences" would not mean his downfall. It would take more than the blunders of a misguided super-power to accomplish that...
...team that can score four touchdowns against Dartmouth is good." Harvard Freshman football coach Henry Lamar commented yesterday about Holy Cross. his team's opponent in today's 3 p.m. game at Soldier's Field...
...beginning, which, by the continuance of the same men in service, had been capable of discipline, we never should have had to retreat with a handful of men across the Delaware in 1776, trembling for the fate of America." Throughout history, in victory or defeat, the citizen-soldier has suffered the curses of his generals. The criticism has not always been fair. True, units of militiamen failed on the field of battle time after time in the War of 1812; and in the Civil War, the militia often simply walked away, ignoring the orders of their officers. But there...
...British soldiers are similarly hammed up. (The British are actually Scottish. I suppose this is so the kilts and Highland flings could make a troubling parallel with the costumes and pagentry of the lunatics. But the sterotoype is of a British Soldier.) The sputtering British commander stops everything...
...Macushla's blue eyes would turn glassy at the sound of it all. The undisputed leaders of the revolution are The Dubliners, five bearded, brawling musical assailants whose style is just about as far removed from the McCormack idiom as Sgt. Pepper is from The Chocolate Soldier...