Word: cadet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used to have wooden ships and iron men. Now we've got iron ships and wooden men," said the training officer to a bunch of German naval cadets just after World War II began. Cadet Heinz Schaeffer, 18, soon found that officers and NCOs had ways of putting iron into the German navy's new blood. Each man was handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training...
Before long, Cadet Schaeffer's group was assigned to U-boat duty, and one day late in 1941 the fledgling submariners heard the speech they had been waiting for, the one that ended: "Go in and sink...
Squash is known as a college man's game. The Crimson's Charlie Ufford is tops in intercollegiate squash, but at the national individual championships at Buffalo this weekend he will be a decided underdog, chiefly because of an air force cadet who never went to college...
...Manners of Comedy. Fielding came of the cadet line in the family of the Fielding Earls of Denbigh. His father was a roistering colonel who so mismanaged his estate that he could not even supply his children with fit beer, and young Henry, as he complained himself, was "forced to drink water for several days together...
Herberg twice edged out Cadet freestyle ace Dave Scott for a double victory. The Crimson's leading sprinter took the 220-yard free-style in 2:14.5 minutes, and the 100 in 52.6 seconds. In the 50-yard sprints, McNamara won in 23.8 seconds, and team-mate Jim Buffington finished second...