Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your review of my novel The Spanish Soldier [Feb. 19], my name is misspelled not only in the title but in the body of the article...
Almost forgotten in the turmoil was the referendum in Northern Ireland, which for once seemed almost tranquil in comparison with London. Ulster managed to get through its first polling day in seven years with only eleven explosions, two people injured, and one soldier killed by a sniper...
...four-story headquarters of the People's Daily on Peking's busy Wang Fu Ching Street bears scant resemblance to a Western newspaper office. A People's Liberation Army soldier with fixed bayonet patrols the main entrance and bars passage to anyone lacking an appointment. Inside, there is no bustle of copy boys, no chorus of jangling telephones. The People's Daily is plainly not a normal newspaper; it is the voice of the Chinese Communist Party. That fact-plus a circulation of 3.4 million -makes it China's most influential publication...
...frustrated Cariou looks up and beds down his ex-mistress (Glynis Johns). She is an actress fabled for her affairs on-and offstage who is currently pleasuring herself with a hussar (Lawrence Guittard). This is our old friend from Roman comedy, the miles gloriosus, the soldier puffed up with vanity, rage (when he encounters Cariou), and the sternly ludicrous conceit that his wife (Patricia Elliot) and his mistress ought to be equal paragons of fidelity. This tangled skein of love and its counterfeits is happily unraveled in Act II at the country house of the actress's mother (Hermione...
...Truman, Truman (3) 5-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (5) 6-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (7) 7-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (8) 8-"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,&#quot;O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (6) 9-The Manipulated Man, Vilar (10) 10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten