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Head of this experiment is tough, able Captain George Wauchope (rhymes with chalk-up). He was called to active service in the Navy after seven years as director of the American South African Line, and nearly 20 years of sea duty during which he once skippered a ship on which Joe Curran was serving as a common seaman. Under Wauchope's direction, trainees at Sheepshead get basic lifeboat-handling drill, elementary courses in deck seamanship, and engineering courses in which they stand regular watch at equipment duplicating conditions aboard Liberty ships...
Common behavior of teachers: locking a child in a narrow, stuffy clothes closet (I know, I spent many hours there); making him sit under the teacher's desk all day, making a child stand for hours with his feet on the ledge of the blackboard (which holds the chalk) and hold on to an old gas fixture above the blackboard; humiliating, ridiculing, insulting, and degrading a child in front of other children...
Bart Harvey, who always runs well in contact sessions, had another good day yesterday, using his blockers well to chalk up a number of long gains. Paul Perkins was pummeling the scrub line with his hard plunges, and Freshman Justin Walsh, a fleet wingback, showed promise. On the defense, center Roxie Lawson's timely and frequent tackles were outstanding...
...strategy, long planned, was comparatively simple. The Commandos were to land by stealth and distract German forces in Berneval, four miles to the east, and Varengeville, five miles to the west. Major General John Hamilton Roberts' Canadians would carry the main show, with flanking attacks against the chalk cliffs on both sides of Dieppe and a frontal assault on Dieppe's beaches...
Inferno. The plaintiff was chalk-haired, Roman-featured Federal Judge William Denman, 69-year-old chairman of World War I's U.S. Shipping Board. Jurist Denman accused General DeWitt...