Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Games, traced through a map of the course with a pointer. "Here's where Jean-Claude Killy went off the edge in a practice run in 1964; and right there so-and-so got killed in a 1966 World Cup event; and that's called the Soldier Section because they found a dead soldier there in 1945." As if that wasn't enough, when an Italian named Stricker crashed on the course, ABC reran the film with comments like "What a tremendous crash, Wow!" Two runs later, an Austrian, Grissman, wiped-out and bounced and slid and quivered over...
...treatment of Arab sick and its research institutes for the training of Arab students. As in an earlier speech in Philadelphia-where he took his text from the biblical inscription on the Liberty Bell*-Rabin quoted from American heroes, including Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Twain and Jonas Phillips, a Jewish soldier who fought in the Revolutionary...
...earthy soldier-dictator who still flaunts his revolutionary past by wearing olive-green fatigues and a pistol at his side. The other is a polished, quick-witted intellectual, an urbane man of the book rather than the gun. They would seem to have little in common, yet by the time Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau ended a three-day visit to Fidel Castro's Cuba last week, an obvious rapport had developed between the two leaders. As TIME's Ottawa bureau chief William Mader, who accompanied Trudeau, reported, the airport farewell ceremonies turned into a kind...
...simple distinction, simplification and opposition. Here he expands his argument to include "paranoid melodrama," the rumor-mongering, and the civilian/soldier dichotomy associated with the war. This latter argument is particularly convincing, since it shows how press censorship and government propaganda suppressing the grim horrors of war alienated the soldier from civilians...
...added to language and its usage. He shows how it strengthened British stoicism in literary style, something Fussell calls "Phlegm," as in this letter home: "Move to trenches Hebuterne. Strafing and a certain dampness." He also presents us with the origins of the widespread use of form letters. British soldiers who tired of writing banal letters home--the only kind that could get by the censors--could write out a "Form A. 2042," also known as the "Whizz Bang" or "Quick Firer." The entire letter was couched in euphemistic phrases, and contained no way of saying one was going...