Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principle to meet with Nixon on accepting the assignment. He has since turned down two invitations from the President to see him. Jaworski has largely dealt with the White House through Chief of Staff Alexander Haig-with increasing impatience, though he recognizes that Haig is simply a "good soldier" obeying his commander in chiefs orders. The prosecutor was kind and courtly on the surface, as he is most of the time to everybody, but he continued to insist on getting documents that the White House was reluctant to hand over. He finally obtained most but not all of them...
...fundamental industriousness (which is higher than ours today), its tenacity and submissiveness. And it is firmly in the grip of a totalitarian system no whit less vigilant than ours. Its army and population will not surrender en masse with Western good sense, even when surrounded and beaten. Every soldier and every civilian will fight to the last bullet, the last breath...
...trains--all browning grass and filthy slush and highway grit. Usually the scene is familiar, and you feel as if you're in the background of every shot, with a knapsack maybe, not noticing the three sailors standing smoking in the corner by the luggage lockers. The career soldier on leave for a good time travels the circuit of the friendless and the mobile, nowhere to go but the next station or bar or cheap hotel, the most public terrain in the world. Socially he's so ostracized that even going into a private home feels foreign. All he identifies...
...Army, and became secretary of the Committee of Foreign Communists in Ufa. He went back to the new Czech republic in 1920 to spend the last three years of his life doing articles for the left wing of the Czech Social Democratic party and writing The Good Soldier Svejk. Respectable people thought him disreputable, he couldn't find a steady job, and he went back to drinking. But a publisher impressed by the sales of the first volume of Svejk, which Hasek had to print and distribute himself, published the rest of the book, and it became popular immediately. Great...
...packed buses rumbled in a dusty parade across the last causeway, which is being left intact for the Egyptians. One group of paratroopers dived into the canal and swam across. "That is the way we came, and that is the way we are going back," said a half-naked soldier to newsmen...