Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open-ended commitment that for weeks kept Bush from organizing any effective relief effort. As late as Saturday, April 13 -- only three days before he finally ordered Operation Haven -- the President declared in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama: "I do not want one single soldier or airman shoved into a civil war in Iraq that's been going on for ages." But while Bush was still in Alabama, where he had gone to fish for largemouth bass, Secretary of State James Baker phoned to report growing pressure from Congress and allies to save the Kurds. British...
Half a game shy of first place, the Harvard men's baseball team dives head first into a critical, four-game weekend this weekend at Soldier's Field. The Crimson (13-14 overall) hosts Yale in a doubleheader today, and will slug it out against Columbia tomorrow...
...Harvard softball team took both ends of its doubleheader with Stonehill College at Soldier's Field Park yesterday, 6-3 and 3-0, and evened its season record...
...military intact to cause the revolt to fail, as if it were some conspiracy. Did we go too far or not far enough? Make up your mind. By the way, when you're dodging ground fire in an Apache helicopter, you don't circle enemy tanks until every soldier has left his vehicle. How much time does it take for an Iraqi soldier to leave his vehicle anyway...
...Then there was King David of Israel. One day, while strolling on his rooftop, he spied a woman bathing and summoned her (nudge, wink) to his royal presence. After Bathsheba told him she had become pregnant, the King 1) tried to trick her husband, a loyal if unimaginative soldier, into sleeping with his wife and 2) when that failed, arranged for the unwitting cuckold to be placed in optimum jeopardy during a battle with the Ammonites. Shocking stuff, told with no holds barred in the Old Testament...