Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals of conspiracy and of insurrection...
...appointment was just as surprising to the new headmaster, shy, softspoken, young (35) Lieut. Colonel John Mason Kemper, deputy chief of the Army's Historical Division. Until Andover's trustees penetrated the labyrinthine Pentagon to proposition him, Colonel Kemper was a convinced career soldier. Says he: "I've never known anything else...
...awful mystery known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing." He marched in the parades, he attended the reunions, he ran for office, he applied for foreign missions, he looked more than ever like a hero. But he could never quite be what he wanted to be: an Old Soldier...
...husband had been assigned to Japan; they spent a year there, and another six in Moscow. One night in Moscow in 1936, her husband woke her and said: "We have visitors." Two OGPU officers ransacked the apartment while a soldier barred the door; the next morning they marched her husband off to be "examined." She never saw him again...
...this exchange of tattle for titillation were the whole truth, only half the battle need be lost; for Playwright John van Druten's soldier is an engaging character and his girl is rather an original one. But since these characters have been deprived of their chief motives, their honesty, and their essential innocence, they are also deprived of most of their reality and all their charm...