Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approached by nuns from a Catholic mission hospital who asked him to help an extremely sick man whose chest was being eaten away by a subcutaneous amoebic infection that had not responded to drugs. Using a method learned from his father, N'donazi applied washed and crushed soldier termites to the open wounds. The patient, Thomas Service, made a remarkable recovery. In gratitude, he now appears at the clinic every Sunday bearing a gift for N'donazi. When a visitor asks how Service feels, the diminutive man shyly shows his healed chest and says the fact that he has walked...
...defense? The defense was not supposed to be in question when Harvard was to open its 1991 campaign against Columbia at Soldier's Field at 1 p.m. today...
...years old, I wanted to find a way to help change the world in political ways...without becoming a foot soldier," she says...
...years old, I wanted to find a way to help change the world in political ways...without becoming a foot soldier," she says...
...cold war officially ended two weeks ago with the collapse of the coup in Moscow and the subsequent rout of the Communist Party by reformers bearing the twin banners of democracy and Mother Russia. If it had been a hot war, some soldier might have rushed into an American general's tent, crying, "Sir, Moscow has fallen!" As it was, there was just the quiet realization that the world had changed utterly and that where East-West relations are concerned, the past was no longer prologue...