Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HORNER JR. Camp Lejeune...
Honking merrily, the red & yellow buses bumped along the back roads of North Carolina. At Laurinburg (pop. 5,685) they pulled up in front of an old Air Force camp theater, and 60 musicians tumbled out with their instruments. An audience of kids, who had trekked in from all over corn-and cotton-raising Scotland County, was there already, waiting for one of the 117 concerts that Conductor Benjamin Swalin's peripatetic North Carolina Symphony Orchestra (and its 23-man task force) will play at more than 60 highway & byway spots in the state this spring...
...Yale, and as young artillery lieutenants at Camp Jackson in World War I, they dreamed and schemed about a paper or magazine that would make the world better informed about what it was doing. "People talk too much about things they don't know," Hadden would complain. What was needed, they agreed, was a medium that would organize the chaotic flow of news so that even a man from Mars could understand it. After graduation from Yale, they went their separate ways for seasoning. Luce went to Oxford and then to a reporter's job on the Chicago...
...Little Money. Later, during a joint hitch on the Baltimore News, Cub Reporters Luce and Hadden finished blueprinting their plans for TIME which they had begun in earnest at Camp Jackson. By stock subscriptions ranging from $500 to $20,000, they raised $86,000 and launched TIME with a staff of 25, including, says Author Busch, "three muddleheaded debutantes." The question whether Hadden or Luce was responsible for TIME, Busch concludes, "was as idle as a controversy about whether it is the steel or the flint that produces fire. Both were responsible...
...fire till you can see the whites of their eyes" was plain common sense to colonials facing the parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition that included Daniel Boone and the Mountain Man . . . would naturally produce high-altitude precision bombing, and the Task Force in a later century." Pratt himself concentrates...