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...Apprentices, who doubled as general dogsbodies, recall that she admonished shirkers with the firmness of a soft-spoken drill sergeant....
...(The four sergeants were Bonapartists guillotined in 1822, and legend has it that two of them briefly escaped from prison in the nearby Tour de la Lanterne and hid here.)...
...The graffiti task force, which contains one sergeant and eight dedicated officers, is also embroiled in a protracted guerrilla war that most people don’t even notice....
...I marvel at a rainbow of fish: dusky chubs, blue-chin parrotfish, Panamic sergeant majors and white-tipped reef sharks....
...The album ends with The Dubliners’ song of farewell, “The Parting Glass”, Ronnie Drew biting down hard on the consonants, stern enough to ward off any sentimentality....
...My favourite part of the film was sitting in an interrogation scene behind the glass, when I was watching these young [actors] in take after take. I needed lots of popcorn to watch them go at it....
...Cheetham Hill in Manchester was carpeted with broken glass; the devastation severe enough to remind many of the Blitz....
...“My hands would tremor so strongly that a glass would fly across the room,” she recalls. “Going from that to making detailed pieces was incredible....
...Equator Village is a charmingly simple hotel based around the old sergeants’ mess....
...The law, in the shape of local bobby Sergeant Williams (Karl Haynes), turns a blind eye — in fact, furnished with a glass or two of rum by the astute Pearl, he’s rather taken by the whole affair....
...I’ve followed the progress of drips down panes of glass on rainy days, as in “Waiting at the Window” from Now We Are Six....
...“He was right in front of me with only the glass of the door between us. He came with a big knife, about 20cm, which had blood on the blade....
...And when the detective sergeant rang to inform me of these developments, I told him he’d got the wrong guy. He hadn’t, he said....
...In Platoon, the “bad” father figure, a sergeant played by Tom Berenger who will do anything, however heinous, to win the war, is allowed to make his case....
...In the found-object homage “The Sergeant”, the contents of one fragile basket — helmet, hammer, nails, conkers, withered leaves — spill out: a hamper of death....
...Boz was named “Bootcamp Drill Sergeant”....
...“Its first victim,” the caption went on to say, “was a German sergeant killed by Startin in July 1915.” Its first victim!...
...Jagged glass topped the high walls, and a lone security guard kept watch, protecting the machinery within....
...renewing repatriation of detainees in May, when he agreed to swap five senior Taliban members, held in Guantánamo without charge for more than a decade, for the last remaining American POW in Afghanistan, Sergeant...
...Inspector Ken MacKaill, Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton and Sergeant Chris Jones had been told they would face no action for misconduct over press statements they made after a meeting with Andrew Mitchell...
...In your tiredness the edges still blur and then the last bit of warm leaves you with a shake, things are now cold and clear, like a glass of water....
...There is a press picture of the former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, looking quizzically at the cylinder in its glass case....
...He lives in a vast Bond-baddie steel and glass palace on a mountain overlooking the capital, Tbilisi....
...Others danced attendance on the Irish-born Fallon at venues including the Savoy Grill, where his shock of silver hair was for years to be seen in a discreet far corner, a smile and a glass alternately at...
...After an hour drifting in the warm water it was time for a light lunch under awnings by the pool, then a nap at the villa, a freshener in the plunge pool, a change into white cotton togs and a glass or two...
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