Word: batallions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the officers and the Other Ranks, (who did all the fighting), and the officers' godlike clutch on "culture." A colonel, for instance, read a review of Edmund Blunden's poetry in the Times Literary Supplement, and he called Blunden back from the trenches to do light duty at batallion headquarters. But sometimes Fussell gets caught up in that class-determined culture, as when he describes Blunden's "very worst moment" (Fussell's words), an explosion that happened close by but that Blunden only heard about. Blunden's gardner-servant told him, "Don't go over, sir, it's awful...
Harvard's 8-1 sinking of a competent Navy batallion notched the 350th victory in Barnaby's soon-to-end 36-year career. But Barnaby just nodded nonchalantly at his informant and turned back to his conference...
...investigations was finally concluded last Wednesday, when the Sergeant Major of the Army pleaded guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army regulations...
...added that the Catholic Church also supports the repression. "They say it is a crusade to civilize and Christianize the blacks," he said. "Before boarding the boats to Africa every batallion must take mass...