Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of this coincides with the author's own early life: Sassoon, who regarded himself merely as an uncomplicated "foxhunting man," once captured single-handed an enemy battalion frontage that the Royal Irish Regiment had failed to take the day before. Then he turned around and wrote...
Said Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller, battle-scarred commander of the 1st Marine Regiment: "We'll suffer heavy losses. The enemy greatly outnumbers us. They've blown the bridges and blocked the roads but we'll make it somehow...
...both wistful and satirical, at the Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, with its indispensable advice: "A tiara is never worn in a hotel, only at parties arranged in private houses or when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles, or Pratt's, if you must). They dread the fatal slip, the moment when they might, for example, eat asparagus with knife and fork: Use your fingers, idiot...
...role of God." The six Catholic bishops of Northern Ireland expressed their opposition to the death penalty. In an act of blatant provocation on the morning of the vote, the I.R.A. staged its most devastating attack of the year in Northern Ireland. Four members of the Ulster Defense Regiment were killed by a land mine that destroyed their Land Rover...
...Kleist's acquiring his skill, stage by stage, almost as if it were a fatal disease. Young Heinrich was by heritage the "right stuff' of which Prussian officers were made. There had been 18 generals in his family. At 15 he joined the King's Guards Regiment. Seven years later, he resigned his commission, apparently intending to take up an equally conventional career as a model civil servant. The youth devised a program of Knowledge, Fervor and Moral Beauty. He became engaged to a pretty 18-year-old whom he congratulated on her good fortune...