Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Details were the keynote at Soldier's Field yesterday, but one could sense the steadily rising tension and spirit as the Varsity worked through everything from signal drills to place-kicking...
...which a career in growth of military knowledge can be based, and to accompany it by two indispensable additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men and with the honor of his government...
...neighbors cared about what passed in the house of the widow Lehrte? So unquiet were the times, and so jumpy the world, that Frau Lehrte and a young soldier out for an afternoon of fun last Week caused an excited incident in besieged Berlin. Some U.S. newspapers reported it under black headlines. Said one story: "Russian troops have opened fire inside the U.S. sector...
...ships to escape the Red grasp. Last week's news was full of D.D.s-displaced diplomats. In Washington the Polish embassy military attache, General Izydor Modelski, ordered home by his Communist-run governme'nt, had point-blank refused to go, asked asylum in the U.S. He had a soldier's blunt reason: "I have never been a member of the Communist Party, nor have I ever been in sympathy with its aims...
...mold. Diestl is caught in the barbarism and demoralization of the Nazi army. Whitacre gets hold of himself by learning the values of sacrifice in a common, just cause. And Ackerman emerges from a harrowing ordeal of anti-Semitic persecution in an Army camp to become the ideal democratic soldier: thoughtful, selfless, heroic...