Word: awoler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the War Assets Administration without armament. They had been flown from Bush Field, Ga., by five U.S. airmen, all of whom were turned over to the U.S. Embassy in Managua. Four were deported to New Orleans, arrested, and charged with violating the U.S. Neutrality Act. A fifth, an AWOL air force captain, was handed over to military authorities in Panama...
Rocky's past had come back to haunt him. The Department of National Defense confirmed the fact that the champ had been AWOL from the Army for four months during the war. During that time, he picked up cigaret money-sometimes as little as $25-fighting in preliminary bouts. It took the Army a while to catch up with Rocky, perhaps because it was looking for a man named Rocco Barbella (his real name). Caught and court-martialed, Rocky was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and dishonorably discharged. His manager insists that...
...Albuquerque, Dr. T. M. Pearce of the University of New Mexico predicted that the atomic age would make English a language of acronyms-words formed from the initial letters of other words. Samples: snafu (and variations), UNESCO, AWOL...
There was a notable vacancy this week among the ghosts of Bushido warriors who circle endlessly above Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine. The AWOL god was Naval Warrant Officer Magoshichi Sugino, who was racked up among the immortals 42 years ago when (supposedly) he lost his life in Admiral Heihachiro Togo's crippling attack on the Russian Far Eastern fleet at Port Arthur...
This month, to check results, church ushers began passing out attendance cards for members of the congregation to sign. The first Sunday showed notable improvement: a congregation of 510-70% above the average. Last Sunday's tally stood at 545. In the next month, those who are still AWOL will receive another call from the Lutheran G.I.s...