Word: awol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran find himself, it's about time somebody rehabilitated the folks back home. We think there is quite a lot of fighting still to be done before we and our children can have a future which measures up to our yardstick. We think a church with fewer members AWOL offers a solution. We know that while the church may not have all the answers, it has some of them...
Divided into 25 pairs, equipped with orange-&-black arm bands labeled "G.I. Lutheran Team," they spent three weeks last month calling on each of the 600 families represented in the congregation. They pointed out to AWOL church members that though times are dark, if more people went to church, things might get brighter. Most Sunday stay-at-homes promised to mend their ways; only one family gave the G.I.s a complete brushoff...
...ever saw him, no one ever caught up with him. But wherever G.I.s went, they found that Kilroy had preceded them, leaving his mark on privy and barracks walls. After Bikini it was found chalked on the battleship Pennsylvania. One of numerous G.I. theories about Kilroy: he was an AWOL infantryman, trying to let his commanding officer know where he was. But an A.A.F. sergeant, Francis J. Kilroy of Everett, Mass., said not at all: a pal of his had started it just...
Some soldiers overstayed their leaves, and in the rickety brick barracks that served as Lichfield's guardhouse, they spent anywhere from two weeks to six months as penalty for various periods of AWOL. Behind barred windows, overcrowded to such an extent that some of the inmates slept on top of wall lockers, they served their time, and other transient GIs could observe their incarcerated friends double timing to chow, sneaking in a verboten smoke (prisoners were allotted three cigarettes a day at Lichfield-one after every meal) or standing at attention, in front of the mess hall, waiting...
...snake-loving, pre-eminent naturalist and author (A Naturalist at Large, That Vanishing Eden), director since 1927 of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. One of the worst of his many bad moments with reptiles in many lands: his giant boa went AWOL in a Palm Beach-bound train...