Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOUSE IN ORDER, by Nigel Dennis. There is a very fine difference between being savagely witty and wittily savage, and Author Dennis never confuses the two in this anguished parable of a man who chooses to be a gardener instead of a soldier...
...leaving the U.S. Their stories usually wound up as half-baked concoctions of half-truths completely unrelated to what was really going on. People know how bad reporting really is because those doing the fighting write home, and the truth is passed to millions from friend to friend. The soldier, and through him the citizen, understands and approves the U.S. Viet Nam position...
...ultimate vindication of the U.S. involvement came six weeks ago, when the last American soldier pulled out of the Dominican Republic. By then, the people had held a free and fair election, and had a new constitutional regime that has brought the nation a measure of stability...
...French Army officers. If he'd had his way, the army would be a loose assemblage of carping individualists, all obeying' only their own inner dictates. One would not expect such reasoning from Charles de Gaulle, supreme authority figure of modern French history. Yet the Old Soldier has now issued an edict that requires every soldier to reason why before he blindly follows orders that "constitute crimes and infractions against the state's security, the constitution or public order...
...soldier of the church," said the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 71. "The general has told me to go there, and I love it." Pope Paul VI had ordered Bishop Sheen to Rochester, N.Y., where he will take over the diocese, assuming his first pastoral assignment in 42 years. Sheen, who used to compete with Uncle Miltie for the Tuesday night Nielsen ratings, will continue the TV sermons he resumed last September after a nine-year absence. "In Rochester I will be closer to the people," he told a Manhattan press conference. Carried away by interfaith enthusiasm, a photographer rushed...