Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tolstoy's sense of guilt was as great as his appetite, and Biographer Simmons quotes tortured entries in his diary, full of repentance and good resolutions. When he joined the army as a cadet at 23, serving in the Caucasus, he congratulated himself one day on exorcising the evils of vice, especially gambling. In the next entry he recorded that "on the same day I was so carried away that I lost [850 rubles]. Now I shall restrain myself and live prudently. I went to Chervlyonnaya, got drunk there, and slept with a woman. All this is very...
Died. Colonel Myron Ray Wood, 53, who rose from aviation cadet in World War I to head the Ninth A.A.F. Service Command in Europe in 1944, became postwar A.A.F. Chief of Supply; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Army went looking for players: "We do this deliberately . . . knowing from experience that the athlete makes the strong battle leader." But, he added, West Point makes no concessions to its star athletes. An All-America tackle who flunked in mathematics was kicked out last June. General Taylor said that Cadet McWilliams had received a "particularly lucrative offer from a certain quarter." Other Army stars (the brightest: Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis) have had "their summer furloughs marred by visitations and solicitations" at bull-market prices. Concluded the General: "The authorities at the Military Academy view with concern . . . the apparent decay...
...pastel-tinted, rambling ranch houses and hangars of "Thunderbird One," the Institute planned to train a new kind of cadet, the young businessman or diplomat prepping for a Latin-American career. Yount's salary as president of "Thunderbird College": $1,000 a month...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...