'paratrooper' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a noun that refers to a member of a military airborne unit trained to parachute into combat areas. Example: The paratroopers bravely jumped out of the plane and landed in the enemy territory, ready to carry out their mission.
The festival kicks off this Thursday at City Screen with an evening of screenings and a reception attended by Shadow Arts Minister Dan Jarvis, a former paratrooper and MP for Barnsley Central.
However, in a defiant statement a few hours later the former paratrooper was back on characteristically provocative and pugilistic form.
The son of a sharecropper, he grew up in rural Arkansas, and had moved west in his mid-20s, having worked in various manual jobs, including logging, and serving as a paratrooper during the Korean war from 1952.
In the event, an heir was recruited who was perhaps even superior to Swift – and who could have predicted that it would be a former German Luftwaffe paratrooper, only recently out of a prisoner of war camp, and playing for a non-league side in St Helens, a town far better known for its rugby league team?
A former paratrooper, Mr Enders has moved seamlessly between academia, politics and business.
Some suggest that supporters for the far-right former paratrooper are disguising themselves as Sarkozy voters in the polls.
Early results of the far-right National Front's leadership election to succeed the former paratrooper showed that Ms Le Pen, backed by her father for the job, has beaten her rival, Bruno Gollnisch, by a comfortable margin.
The former government minister and federal vice-chancellor, a master self-publicist who had recently fallen from political grace as a leading liberal, would have wanted it no other way: he adored the limelight.On June 5th, the 57-year-old Mr Möllemann, a former paratrooper, organised a parachute jump with friends, as he had done hundreds of times before.
Her father, a former paratrooper, perfected a line in anti-Semitic and xenophobic outrage.
SOME years ago, your columnist shared a house in Washington with a former British paratrooper who had retired thither to devote himself to the cultivation of marijuana.
He could be a good Israeli, doing his army service as a paratrooper and acting the hero in gung-ho films such as "Kippur" or "Rage and Glory".
