Word: soldierly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Serbs say I'm a human shield," the general conceded in an interview conducted by ham radio. "Yes, I am a shield. I will remain in Srebrenica as long as I consider the safety of the inhabitants at risk." Those were brave words from a soldier who up to then had had few admirers. He had drawn criticism from the U.N. contingent in the Bosnian capital for hobnobbing with Serbian militia chiefs, like Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Sarajevo," and for not forthrightly denouncing Serbian aggression. His orders from the U.N. were not to use force...
...writing to call attention to the fact that the tennis and track facilities at Soldier's Field will, by the beginning of spring break, have been closed in the evenings to recreational users (i.e., all users other than college teams) for a total of 24 out of a possible 59 weekdays since these facilities reopened after Christmas...
...panel of outside experts called upon to shore up Biosphere 2's scientific underpinnings announced that they had voted to resign, citing unspecified conflicts with the project's managers. "I was frustrated by the lack of progress," said biologist Thomas Lovejoy, the panel's chairman. The Biospherians will soldier on, but their two-year experiment in self- sufficiency is starting to look less like science and more like a $150 million stunt...
...held Dil's British lover captive in Belfast. Fergus hasn't expected to fall in love. He surely hasn't expected to find -- as the viewer does, 69 minutes into the 112-minute film -- that Dil is a man. A gay black man, pining for a gay black British soldier, yet eerily enticing to an Irish heterosexual who now has the convulsive feeling he is on the lam from himself...
...control their men. Elite units are the least likely to commit rape and other atrocities, although SS men in World War II proved the exception. Says the military historian John Keegan: "Elite units have a rather high opinion of themselves and consider atrocity to be beneath them." A soldier who murders or rapes disgraces his comrades and damages esprit de corps...