Word: bivouacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without Dignity. It is all war, war on the Pacific island of Anopopei, which a force of 6,000 Americans is attempting to take, war in headquarters bivouac and on the trails through the jungle, war between Private Red Valsen and Sergeant Sam Croft-war without dignity and without purpose, war for position or prestige, war to save face, or to satisfy an inward sense of superiority, or war that is merely the psychological ricochet of the greater conflict off stage...
Other unit commanders who wanted a morale-booster for their own men were given the privilege of staging the executions of flyers captured in their bivouac areas. On at least two occasions the livers of the executed men were served in the officers' messes while strips of flesh cut from the legs were used to flavor enlisted men's soup...
...them slowly over the same path. The winged males straggle along, licked and caressed by the workers, but bitten fiercely if they try to fly away. The queen comes too, guarded by a crowding escort of fanatical worshipers. She plunges into the mass of her subjects at the new bivouac and disappears. The colony has moved...
...when does a queen begin her reproductive life? Dr. Schneirla is not sure, but he has a theory. While the queen is in a bivouac, she is always surrounded by a dense mass of workers, which struggle wildly to lick some substance exuded by her body. The males, no matter how eager, cannot get anywhere near...
...when the queen is on the march from bivouac to bivouac, she is relatively unguarded. Then, thinks Dr. Schneirla, the hitherto frustrated males may get their chance...