Word: soldierly
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...cherry pie. Joe, on the other hand, got me into a permanent emotional headlock and found some way, every day, to give me psychic noogies. For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field...
...ready for this one. ``It's not a handout. It's a sweepstakes.'' And that's when he asks me to calculate how many jelly beans will fill Soldier Field...
Idid not see a single soldier in Chechnya with a sleeping bag, gloves or other proper kit. In fact, you would have thought the Russian army had just crawled out of a cave, where they still cook over a fire and sleep on the ground instead of in tents. The soldiers had no change of underwear and had not been able to wash for weeks. It seemed, in fact, as if this war was being waged 200 or 300 years ago. The only difference was that what our soldiers were carrying in their dirty hands were not old-fashioned muskets...
...major event in Afghanistan when a soldier was taken prisoner. kgb and gru agents tried to locate pows; then field commanders began negotiations to free them. At first they tried to deal from strength, bombing and firing missiles at villages. If the mujahedin still refused to turn over prisoners, efforts were made to buy our people back. They were ransomed with flour, kerosene, uniforms, sometimes money, even, though rarely, with weapons. In the Chechen war, the military command will not even talk about the fate of captured officers and soldiers. Distraught mothers have had to go to Chechnya to free...
Henry V. Through March 25. American RepertoryTheatre, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. 547-8300.Civil war is at an end and the young king mustturn his attentions to the turmoils abroad. Fromthe tavern at Eastcheap to the fields ofAgincourt, the pageant continues as Hal proveshimself a great soldier and states-man, finallymeeting Katherine, the beautiful daughter of theKing of France, who teaches him his first lessonsin love. Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m. Saturday at 2and 8 p.m. Sunday...