Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tape. Adolf went to Poland in 1931. But without Anna he was soon in difficulties. He couldn't sell the family land-there was a depression in Poland, too. And at the end of a year he also discovered that 1) being a soldier had not made him a U.S. citizen, as he had supposed; 2) he had neither a passport nor a visa; and 3) his re-entry permit had expired. He could not get back...
...army, which had heroically sustained casualties up to 13% in the Grammos operation, had little appetite for the Vitsi campaign. The guerrillas had a fresh, seemingly unlimited supply of land mines which they were using to the full; World War II veterans know what intensive mining does to a soldier's morale. Last month the Greek government sent an S.O.S. to Washington. Its gist: there are actually more guerrillas in Greece now than when the U.S. first started giving aid; continued U.S. aid is necessary...
Dartmouth doesn't tramp into the Stadium for two more days, but the Varsity was building a welcome bonfire yesterday in its two-and-a-half hour practice behind the fences and under the lights on Soldier Field...
...bring about a change after four years of his predecessor's austerity. Socially popular, Prío always worked hard & long before setting out with his wife Mary for an evening of parties. Unlike high-minded Grau, who refused to believe that his appointees might graft and soldier on the job, Prío harbored no such illusions...
...business of being a soldier is perhaps the most specialized in the world, one which demands a mode of life more exacting and methodical than a civilian profession could hope to be. To expect a thoroughly liberal college to produce a body of men espable of maintaining the standards of duty and leadership which every Army must have at its base would be as absurd as expecting an Army camp to produce scholars and artists...