Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1924, when she and Christopher Robin went down to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, A. A. Milne's Alice sympathetically remarked: "A soldier's life is terrible hard." Neither she nor England had seen anything yet. In those days the rigid young sentries in their scarlet tunics and high black bearskins were symbols of imperial glory: Englishmen and foreigners alike respectfully held their tongues and kept their distance. But after World War II was won with a minimum of pomp and circumstance, and the blitz took away war's glamour...
...skillfully elusive commander of the Greek Cypriot underground during four years of bloody strife with the British, Colonel George Grivas was content to let exiled Archbishop Makarios and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban...
...viceroy. Elizabeth chose the first French Canadian ever to be appointed to the post. He is Major General George Philias Vanier, 71, a courtly soldier-diplomat whose family settled in Quebec in 1681. A World War I hero who lost a leg at the Cherisy campaign, Vanier was Canada's first Ambassador to France, has lived quietly in retirement since...
...comic-opera civil war of the disgruntled French nobility, Mademoiselle achieved only the boring martyrdom of five years' rural banishment from the Paris she loved. After 4-3 years of stalwart virginity in the most lascivious court in Europe, she fell passionately in love with a toy-soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest...
...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience...