Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pile of horse manure. It's going to be a long summer. Somehow we've got to get ourselves organized to get this traumatic experience over as quickly as possible. It's a painful thing, but we are paid to do tough things in the soldier business...
Special Precautions. Meinhof's death brought more violence. Police armed with water cannons fought a pitched battle with 600 rampaging demonstrators in Frankfurt and quelled more rumbles in West Berlin, Munich and other cities. A West German soldier whose sympathy, police suspect, belonged to the terrorists was critically injured when a bomb he was carrying exploded near the Munich studio of the American Forces Network. Other bombs went off in Paris and Rome. At week's end authorities were taking special precautions to ensure that the dwindling number of young Germans who still follow Meinhof's black...
...Andy Jackson," muses Dean Sayre, "was a dirty old soldier before he came to the White House, and Lincoln, this fellow of the prairie, we've had no more religious leader in all our history. Wilson had a vision. Harry Truman, that haberdasher from Missouri, he was a towering figure of moral probity. American people expect it in our system, but the more...
...underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height of the rebellion. From then on, Lawrence was lost to consuming guilt and shame and soon after the assault, Lawrence took up the habit, repeated regularly until his death, of paying a fellow soldier to whip him mercilessly as an act of stimulating penance...
...Alan Howard's rendering of the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the line rings disconcertingly true. It is as if the soldier-king had left the plow for the fields of combat without ever having seen his own court...