Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic training. To save time, three weeks of training (overhead artillery firing, combat in cities, infiltration courses) were lopped off the schedules. Then the Army raided the division, levied 3,400 recruits for combat in Korea. The 43rd frantically rushed them through final training, and in return got another batch of men fresh from induction centers as replacements. The 43rd began to wonder if it hadn't been quietly shunted into a training role. Officers & men wrote letters to the Pentagon, their Congressmen and New England papers. Privately, the Pentagon labeled them the "crybaby division" and sent inspectors...
...first batch of "lost" documents-some office boy must have misplaced them...
...closed-door conference with the generals and colonels, paceños knew that something was up. At 3 a.m., weary reporters saw President Mamerto Urriolagoitia and two military aides hustle out of the palace, get into a car and drive away. Then army officers Banded out a batch of press releases, including a message from Urriolagoitia: "Despite my constant efforts to conduct the political struggle into channels of peace and tranquillity . . . our country is again faced with a dilemma . . . Accordingly, I hereby deliver the high office of constitutional President . . . into the hands of the armed forces...
Strike It Rich (weekdays 11:30 a.m., CBS-TV), a veteran radio giveaway, makes its TV bow with a noisy M.C. (Warren Hull), an even noisier studio audience, and a batch of contestants who can win as much as $500 (sample question: "What great U.S. President married Martha Custis?"). Before, during and after the questions, Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet hawks its products with giant display cards, man-sized toothpaste tubes, animated cartoons, singing commercials, and free samples dumped in each contestant...
...similar gift of Canadian materiel for a Dutch division was delivered in December. A third batch will be shipped to Italy as soon as Canada gets replacement hardware from...