Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vaughn W., who served in the same training class, went to Europe on the same ship, served in the same unit, were promoted twice to the same grades on the same days, were wounded by the same shellburst, went to the same field hospital, were discharged from the same camp the same day, went to work for the same company and enrolled in the same business school, where they took the same courses...
Despite Trimble's uncertain condition and Spivak's injury, the traditional excitement that precedes any Yale contest has already reached the Varsity camp at Dillon. You can't walk five feet in the track room there without bumping into a "Beat Yale!" or "Let's keep it an undefeated season" sign. The H.A.A. has helped out, too, blanketing every bulletin board in the University with posters advertising the meet...
...occupy all offices with men, who . . . were formed for their tasks in Russian political-schools. All men who were real democrats were out away, and if one of them said only one word against the men, who reigned now in a "real-democratically manner," he came into a concentration-camp. You may say this is an institution of the "Nazi-time." Yes, it was, but there is only one difference. In the years 1933-45 only a dew Germans knew of this institutions and nearly no Germans knew what happened there, but now all men in the Eastern part...
Three years later a Roman Catholic divine, impatient for the long-expected conversion, sent a scout to the Newman camp. "He will come soon," was the excited report. The emissary had noticed that punctilious Newman was wearing a layman's grey trousers-a sign that he considered himself no longer a clergyman...
Yaleman Beirne Lay Jr. (I Wanted Wings) was commander of the 48th Bomb Group when he was shot down over France (the French underground rescued him and he was back in England three months later). Sy Bartlett, aide-de-camp to General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, was one of the first U.S. Air Forces men to arrive in England, flew on many a mission over Europe and later over Japan. Their book, for all its embarrassing concessions to scenario requirements, is an exciting, credible record of what was felt and endured by the first U.S. bomber crews to tangle with...