Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sidelined since, the beginning of Varsity practice with an irritating non-football injury, Pete Petrillo, highly regarded Freshman tailback, put in a full afternoon's work on Dick Harlow's "A" team yesterday, as the Crimson squad ran through a spirited workout at Soldier's Field...
...marchers were members of the "Federation of Families for the Speedy Return of Japanese Soldiers in the Northern Areas." To the Russians they presented a humble petition: "It is full moon now. We are sure that our soldier sons are looking at the same moon, worrying about us as we are worried about them. We ask for your humane consideration...
...little prestige. The Literary Guild and Publisher Scribner have made a first printing of 825,000 copies, and 20th Century-Fox (which paid $210,000 for the story) is already at work on the movie version. The twin themes of The Dark Wood are timely: 1) What does a soldier do when he comes home from war and finds his wife has left him for another man? 2) What does a war widow do to erase the memory of her dead husband...
Like many novels that aim at the nerve ends of a whole nation, The Dark Wood is undeniably sincere in intention, but in the telling is pat and unconvincing. Author Weston has strong and respectful feelings for the abandoned soldier and the miserable widow-but her slick answer to their despair is to have them meet accidentally and fall in love, because the lonely soldier reminds the lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with...
...Does it hurt much?" said a soldier...