Word: soldierly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Richard Laird, U.S. Army Individual Ready Reserve, a "white, single, heterosexual Vietnam-era/Persian Gulf veteran," was molested while serving by a fellow soldier whom he otherwise would have killed that morning except he decided to leave the corps instead, he told me. Noting my affiliation with "Kremlin on the Charles," he permitted me a copy of what only the White House, Rush Limbaugh and a few dozen senators had been exposed to: his Go-Pat-Go information packet which includes a pretty damn hysterical parody of the president as Uncle Sam declaring, "I want you! One good, proud, patriotic...
...Nazi death camps suffer from "group fantasies of martyrdom." He even tried his hand at Holocaust revisionism, arguing that diesel-engine exhaust could not have killed so many Jews at Treblinka. Hitler? A mass murderer, Buchanan admits in a 1977 piece, but a man of "great courage" and "a soldier's soldier." If it matters to you that you don't leave the impression that you are carrying a torch for the Fuhrer, that's a judgment you frame in such a way as to leave no doubt about your feelings. And if it doesn't matter to you? With...
...oath and Haiti experienced its first-ever peaceful transfer of power from one popularly elected leader to another. At month's end Clinton can chalk up the final--and maybe most important--mission accomplished: to leave. The U.S. troops will return home, having suffered the loss of only one soldier...
...campaigning in Iowa. The initial reports of Dugan's death said that the 38-year-old veteran died as a result of a land mine explosion in northern Bosnia. But NATO officials later confirmed that Dugan was killed when he picked up unexploded ammuntion. He is the ninth allied soldier killed in the peacekeeping operation since it began in December...
SARAJEVO: Two Portuguese and one Italian NATO soldier were killed Wednesday night when an explosion rocked the compound where they were housed. Seven other allied soldiers were injured. Though early reports suggested that a terrorist attack or a land mine may have caused the explosion, NATO officials later revealed that one of the Portuguese soldiers had brought the grenade-type bomb to the barracks as a souvenir...