Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lame Buck Private...
Ability to label a pistol as a gun proved helpful for buck privates who wanted to gain chevrons, but was only a first step. Draftees now go directly from reception centres to tactical units which are below war strength. But after next March, they will spend 14 weeks at replacement centres now building, to learn something of soldiering before joining seasoned troops. Those who look good on the basis of their G. C. test and show leadership qualities will get a crack at commanding, may attain the status of "cadet" or "temporary sergeant," wear not chevrons but an identifying...
...last week seven tons of Duralumin "tractor," driven by a twelve-cylinder automobile engine, chugged into the surf of Guantanamo Bay and set out to sea. Instead of sinking, the Buck Rogersian vehicle paddled to & fro at ten miles an hour, turned, charged the beach and landed a party of U. S. Marines...
...worst mistake in business was made in 1928, when he tried to buck the Berry brothers, William Ewert (now Baron Camrose) and James Gomer (now Baron Kemsley). The Berrys had a prosperous string of provincial newspapers on which Rothermere looked with a jealous eye. He set up rival papers in Newcastle and Bristol. Eventually the news war became so expensive that both sides called a truce. Rothermere retired from Newcastle, leaving most of the field to the Berrys...
...simple, sometimes classic phrases Soldier Lynch told his men that changes in tools caused change in rules, affected whole Army corps as well as single buck privates...