Word: straggler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another street, a man attacked another straggler and was beaten by others in the mob, one of whom repeatedly kicked the man as he lay in the street. A woman shouted. "Let him alone, he's my son." Then several men emerged from an apartment building, attacked the demonstrators who were beating the man, and pulled one demonstrator inside a building, where they beat him until a policeman arrived...
...matter! On the second day, Arnie showed up relaxed and smiling, and shot a 68 that gave him a four-stroke lead on the field and seven strokes on Nicklaus. "It's beginning to look like we're playing for second place," grunted one straggler...
...profiting from his command position at the railyard, his diffidence about sex, his devotion to duty are presented not as Soviet virtues grafted on him by the state but as signs of an inner innocence that is doomed to disillusion. The moment comes when Zotov is confronted by a "straggler"-one of the thousands of Russian soldiers who had been separated from their outfits in the confusion as the Germans advanced. Zotov is drawn to the man. He talks to him about his own life in Moscow, about the straggler's wife and children. Then, on the slightest possible...