Word: akin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profound effect on the whole British Army. Now, in effect, every British soldier gets the elements of Commando schooling. Even in the old Guards regiments, parade-ground precision has given way to training for actual battle. The U.S. has also profited. U.S. Marines studied Commando methods, found them akin to what the Marines were already doing. Amphibious troops now being trained in the U.S. Army will have the benefit of Commando experience...
...invasion of Japan from the rock-bound coasts of Karafuto may seem a little fantastic. They should not forget that war is fantastic. The importance of Expert Kiralfy's contribution to strategy is that, like the strategists of the Axis, he possesses the revolutionary mind, which is akin to the offensive mind. "To dare!" said Saint-Just, "is all the politics of the Revolution...
Spurs, the John Charles Hill Awards to the men who have made the most progress in equitation, in the first two classes will be given to Herbert C. McArthur '45 and Paul B. Akin '44, and the Robert H. Hallowell awards to the Junior who has shown the greatest improvement and the best horseman in the Senior class have been won by John M. Field '43 and Malcolm P. McNair...
...cellulose-digesting bacteria are of the aciduric group, akin to the Lactobacillus acidophilus of Bulgarian buttermilk, which (some scientists think) helps un usual numbers of Balkan rustics to fill themselves full of years. Taken in liquid form, the bacterial cultures taste like chocolate syrup. They become permanently established among the intestinal flora in about a month. Cost: $2 per person...
Down this road, 200 arid miles through nearly uninhabited, semidesert country akin to southern California and New Mexico, I went in a car supplied by Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's Sino-U.S. headquarters. An officer gravely snowed me how to use a Tommy-gun in case I met Burmese traitors...