sapper

• “While with this unit, Source received training in sapper techniques.”

  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT

• “There was a psychological moment as the crouching man came up into the trench with his rifle and bayonet, when his chin was in the perfect position: moreover, the sapper was a full back of merit.”

  No Man's Land

• “The tome ended his England career because he criticised the then manager, Clive Woodward, and was deemed an energy sapper; he once admitted that he had a personality trait where he could go from being relatively calm to relatively insane quite quickly, describing his behaviour as sometimes less than ideal.”

  The Guardian: Richard Cockerill ready to make Leicester Tigers roar against Saracens

• “The president of Francisco Marroquin University drove me and a half dozen other American reporters to his campus in an armored vehicle preceded by a sapper squad, checking for potential land mines in its path.”

  The Huffington Post: Murray Fromson: A Footnote to History

• “One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam.”

  Voice of America: Vietnamese Refugee Wins Top Australian Literary Award

• “TOM BOWMAN: Specialist Jenkins was a sapper, a combat engineer.”

  NPR: Soldiers From The 101st Remember One Of Their Own

• “The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.”

  The English Patient « Books « Literacy News

• “Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.”

  The English Patient « Books « Literacy News

• “On the night in question a sapper was crawling thru the wire in the wee hours.”

  I am a glutton for hunting and war stories. Here is your chance to tell one or two.

• “Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.”

  The Huffington Post: Belleruth Naparstek: 12 Ways To Beat Holiday Stress

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