Word: buglers
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Laniel read some correspondence between himself and Juin. In one letter, Juin had written: "I will not be called on the carpet like a simple bugler . . ." Another: "I don't want to come to the Hotel Matignon and run into a crowd of newspapermen . . . waiting with curiosity for a man who is about to be thrashed with saddle straps." Said Laniel to the Assembly, with a sigh: "I told him he could use a side entrance, but his mind was made up." The National Assembly laughed-in sympathy with Premier Laniel and with civilian government. It supported the sacking...
...reality and back again, like the moon in a mist. In his first dream, which takes place around the turn of the century, the composer meets an old man who tells him all about the good old days, back in 1830. In a flash the musician becomes a bugler, off to sound the charge on some sultan's daughter (Gina Lollobrigida) in Algeria. But after lolling awhile with Lollobrigida, he meets the old man again, and is off to 1790 for some wig-nuzzling with a willing aristocrat (Magali Vendeuil...
...five minutes past 9 one morning last week, in the capital city of Ankara, a bugler blew a blast, and all over the nation's 296,000 square miles, 21 million Turks stood motionless for five minutes. Only the delayed shriek of jet formations broke the silence. Then cannon began to boom at five-minute intervals as Kemal Ataturk, the Father of the Turks-dead 15 years this day-began his last voyage...
...haired battalion commander took a soggy cigar from his mouth, flicked a switch, and called his companies: "Thanks for sticking out the war. You'll be all right now if you don't step on a mine on the way back." At the ist Marine Division, a bugler played taps. Despite the sober warnings, men dashed from their bunkers, shed their flak jackets, then stood around in little groups, talking, in a no man's land that was suddenly safe...
...grey Navy transport in Yokohama, a bugler sounded taps. On the pier, another bugler echoed him. Fifty pressed steel caskets containing the bodies of U.S. fighting men killed in Korea* were loaded on to the ship, which slid out to sea under grey skies...