Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev was my friend. His death last week by his own hand was a tragedy that mirrors the convulsions racking the Soviet Union. He was a communist, a patriot and a soldier, and my guess is that he would have listed his affiliations in that order. His entire life was spent in the service of the motherland and the party, beginning in 1940 when he enlisted in the army. World War II left an indelible stamp on him. Close to 80% of Soviet men born in 1923, the year of his birth...
...Kalashnikov in his lap, a Syrian soldier sits on a lawn chair in front of the monumental staircase leading into the ruins. The soldier smokes cigarettes, chews watermelon seeds, and jokes with the Syrian plainclothesmen who, like him, are there to keep peace...
...known version of the Joan of Arc story, The Maid of Orleans, based on a play by Schiller. It presented a different problem: how to bring life to what is essentially a series of choruses and processions. One solution was to highlight Joan's fictitious romance with a Burgundian soldier. The Bolshoi's directors, says Kokonin, "read Tchaikovsky's music according to what they saw as Schiller's original theme: the conflict of love and duty...
...made payoffs to the Mob in exchange for being allowed to cheat employees out of as much as $70 million in lost wages and benefits. Cirino Salerno made weekly deliveries of cash skimmed from the local to his brother's East Harlem headquarters, according to a former top Genovese soldier, Vincent (Fish) Cafaro. In a 1987 affidavit, Cafaro, now a government witness, claimed that "Speed" had the garage industry "locked up through 'sweetheart contracts' with the owners . . . If someone buys or builds a garage or parking lot in New York City, you will get a visit from 'Speed...
Leno sees his anointing as a reward to be judiciously savored. "I consider myself a good soldier," he says. "You go to work, you do the job -- write joke, tell joke, get check -- and the world will pretty much take care of itself." After establishing himself as a Johnny wannabe, the glockenspiel- jawed comic was offered other talk-show slots, but, he says, "I wisely turned them down. To me, this is the only job in television. I'm kind of coming in as the new CEO. You don't really own it, you just hold...