Sentences with phrase «better foxholes»

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While in the army I slept in foxholes holding an M - 16 with my atheist best army buddy who always bought the bear.

However, it is true that when men are in foxholes and their lives are on the line they all want a good weapon, ammunition, buddies they can count on, and air support, even the most devote believers, because deep down they know what's going to keep them alive, and it isn't God.

The existence of foxholes is a pretty good sign that no kind or loving god exists.

Winters, on the other hand, may well ask who would like to join him in his increasingly lonely foxhole.

«They say there's no atheists in foxholes, but there's probably no atheists in rockets,» Col. Mike Good

Late fall is a beautiful season in the Pennsylvania woods, but when the deer hunters come the beauty is best observed from a deep - dug foxhole or the steel safety of a tank

Fairly gripping, Stone's foxhole instinct pairs well with this story, what with its militaristic uniform roll call and camaraderie between men under extreme duress.

Based on the novel «The Brisk Foxhole» by the young Richard Brooks and directed by Edward Dmytryk in what many feel was the best period of his career, this is the famous postwar thriller about an anti-Semitic murder and the returning American soldiers mixed up in it.

In addition, the S63 has the full go - faster treatment: the seats have special leather, stitching patterns, piping, and emblems; the stylish body kit should be as good at reducing drag as it is at turning heads; the four gleaming tailpipes are almost as big in diameter as foxholes; and, to avoid confusion with lesser Benzes, there are about two dozen AMG logos prominently scattered throughout the car.

Citizen Soldiers captures the fear and exhilaration of combat, the hunger and cold and filth of the foxholes, the small intense world of the individual rifleman as well as the big picture of the European theater in a manner that grips the reader and will not let him go.

They are all well designed and as tight as a foxhole, and the layout makes enough sense that you'll get to grips with it all fairly quickly.

A good example of thermal mass in action is The Foxhole, where modern day pioneers Ben and Mae are experimenting with animal husbandry in the age of peak oil.

Better to define responsibilities that build a «foxhole mentality,» wherein one person has the gun, the other the bullets, McCarthy says.