Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tapes from Tania, as well as some of her papers that were confiscated at the Harrises' apartment. The prosecutor effectively cited this evidence to show that Patty not only extolled the S.L.A. but celebrated her role in the bank robbery. She had been acting, Tania said, as "a soldier in the people's army." Browning also produced a witness named Zigurd Berzins, who told the jury that Patty, for someone who supposedly was forced to go along on the raid, was unusually well prepared: she was carrying at least two clips of ammunition...
...soldier in an 'army of generals?' " asked Browning, echoing a phrase used by a defense witness...
Roosevelt, of course, stayed in the White House until death overtook him (and felt so possessive of the office that when running for his fourth term in wartime, he argued ingenuously that the Commander in Chief, like an ordinary soldier, had a duty to stay on the job). The advantage of occupying the Oval Office worked even for those accidental Presidents who, like Gerald Ford, were raised up from Vice President in an emergency. Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson both stepped into the presidency in midterm, then went on to win election on their own. Perhaps both decided...
...tragedy, is still too bad, particularly around here. Raymond Sokolov's first novel is in large measure about Harvard and its mentality in the early days of the Kennedy meritocracy, as seen through various purported documents pertaining to the career of Alan Casper '63, linguistics genius and Peace Corps soldier of fortune. Casper is very clever and very witty and not very deep, and Sokolov presents his case accordingly; Native Intelligence, then, is of vast prurient interest to Harvard students and, like its hero, a little too smart for its own good...
...Callahan's choice of Commonwealth Avenue instead of Soldier's Field Road as the site of his hockey education was borne out virtually every step of the way last night, as the Terriers overwhelmed Harvard in every phase of the game to win by an impressive 8-4 count and advance into tonight's finals...