Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger who'd scare you with his growl; another read only the most violent detective magazines. Some of the women in the camp were groveling in True Confessions, living in a misty world of make-believe and dreaming of the day they'd be able to go back to civilization. We each lived our life oblivious of the one living next...
...year-old Nisei named Tomoya Kawakita, better known to hundreds of G.I. prisoners as "The Meatball." The son of a California grocer, Kawakita was caught on a visit to Japan by World War II. He threw in his lot with the Japanese. As an interpreter in the prison camp at Oeyama, he taunted G.I. prisoners in their own ball-park English, took savage delight in tormenting them...
...never leaves the West Point area from his arrival in July for "Beast Barracks"--the two months disciplining period before courses begin--until the end of his first year the following June. His personal rights and privileges are more limited than any buck private's in boot camp, and his work week, even by the Academy's presumably conservative estimate, is calculated to take 72 hours of his time. For the right to these dubious advantages, he must first undergo a complete mental and physical check-up which may reject him for such various causes as facial ugliness or unfilled...
...more exacting and methodical than a civilian profession could hope to be. To expect a thoroughly liberal college to produce a body of men espable of maintaining the standards of duty and leadership which every Army must have at its base would be as absurd as expecting an Army camp to produce scholars and artists...
...postal told her that her husband had been release from detention camp and was on his way to join...