Crossword-Solution: DESERTERS
We have 14 clues for the answer “DESERTERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AWOL-ers. | 1 answer |
| Court-martial candidates | 1 answer |
| Military problem-people | 1 answer |
| Permanent AWOLs | 1 answer |
| The army wants them | 1 answer |
| They're out of here | 1 answer |
| They're way off-base | 1 answer |
| Those spurning their outfits | 1 answer |
| Those who've gone wrong? | 1 answer |
| Front runners? | 2 answers |
| Renegades. | 3 answers |
| Runaways | 3 answers |
| Turncoats. | 3 answers |
| "Rats!" | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESERTERS (5)
She did not know what it was all about, but she saw that Rokoff was very angry, and from bits of conversation which she could translate she gleaned that there had been further desertions while he had been absent, and that the deserters had taken the bulk of his food and ammunition.
The Latin original of desert appears to have been originally applied to the case of deserters from military service.
They would be chopped in bits before they would stay longer on board this boat--they and their-Feng shui.” When morning came the deserters could be made out camped on the shore, near to the beached dory.
Proudhon, enthusiast as he has been for the science created by Fourier, is, or will be, an enthusiast for any thing else whatsoever." If ever sectarians had the right to reproach another for changes in his beliefs, this right certainly does not belong to the disciples of Fourier, who are always so eager to administer the phalansterian baptism to the deserters of all parties.
They were called deserters, and frequently bills were set up upon their doors and written, ‘Here is a doctor to be let’, so that several of those physicians were fain for a while to sit still and look about them, or at least remove their dwellings, and set up in new places and among new acquaintance.
Quotes with DESERTERS (3)
There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best — in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly. …in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief. We had to recognize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs. They surpassed us only …
As a jailer, I never got to understand my charges. But when I became a bandit, I spent a lot of time being close to the lowliest of the low: criminals, the enslaved, deserters, men who had nothing to lose. Contrary to what I had expected, I found that they had a hardscrabble beauty and grace. They were not mean in their nature, but made mean by the meanness of their rulers. The poor were willing to endure much, but the emperor had taken everything from them.
I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we'd laugh. There must have been a time when it was rather an awkward question.""Yes. Moral theologians were never able to stop dueling -- it took democracy to do that.""And in the next war, when we are completely democratic, I expect that it will be quite honourable for officers to leave their men behind. It'll be laid down in…
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).