The reservist, David Danieli, 28 years old, was the fifth Israeli to be killed in West Bank violence in the last week.

In the daily fighting that pits young Israeli soldiers and older reservists against Palestinian protesters, the insults and taunts, often, are extreme.

Finnish defenses consisted mainly of badly equipped coast defense battalions manned by older reservists and battalions hastily transferred from Lapland.

Only once, when we produced our movement order yet again, did an old reservist ask me, "Sir, have you come from 'up there'?

I tried to give the old reservist some reassurance.

The line was partially manned with old reservists in the summer of 1944.

All those old, out-of-shape reservists being dragged back by Rummy would be great pitchmen for arthritis medication.

It was a Series B reserve division containing older reservists.

Listen, Wonder Boy, your 'doddering old reservist' is Honor Harrington.