Word: soldiers
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Yasenak, 33, looks like the kind of neighborhood soldier Norman Rockwell painted. Although he is a former drill sergeant, as a recruiter he thinks it best not to insist or shove. Rather, his specialty is a kind of sober sweet talk about experience and cash bonuses and duty. Last year he persuaded 47 men and women to join the Army and Army Reserve, more than half again as many as his quota. "No," he corrects with deadpan good humor, "we don't have quotas. We have missions." Over four years, he figures, he has signed up enough people...
...Harvard softball team's traditional last game of the year against Yale, which should have been played yesterday afternoon on Soldier's Field, was cancelled when the Elis said they couldn't make it to Cambridge...
...Crimson will meet Bentley College at Soldier's Field tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. The batwomen enter their season finale with a record...
...West Pointer and third-generation soldier, Clark was wounded as a captain in France during World War I but did not see action again until the landing in Salerno in September 1943. He first piqued the nation's imagination a year earlier, when he was smuggled into Algeria by submarine on a mostly successful cloak-and-dagger mission to win French support for the imminent Allied invasion of North Africa. Known for his humor and daring, Clark was nearly killed on several occasions while leading his troops; he once personally spearheaded an attack on 18 German tanks. His polyglot...
Notwithstanding the criticisms, Mark Clark was a soldier of brilliance and integrity. At the Italian campaign's lowest ebb, Eisenhower told him from London, "You are writing history that Americans will always read with pride." Ike's words were echoed by President Reagan last week: "We are free because of men like him. His professionalism and dedication will be the standard of every soldier who takes the oath to defend our nation...