Word: chowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forward post we found nine /bearded cavalrymen. They had just finished chow and were looking longingly at the fresh apple pie which a medical officer had forbidden them to eat because it was too heavy for half-starved men. "All Quiet." Corporal Edwin L. Piper of Company G, 2nd Battalion, who had kept snatches of a diary, told us the story of his week. Hard hit in the first enemy thrust, the remnants of his company had made two withdrawals, finally joined K Company of the 3rd Battalion on a hill where it had been trapped. Said Piper: "Company...
Charles Byron '52 provides the international angle with a characterization of Chow Chee, a cannibalistic Communist. Kerry Lyne '52 plays a rambunctious Milwaukee debutante in pursuit of Gwynne...
...medal is for sharp-shooters.") Quick-tongued now, he shines at the annual military ball: "Ted, that's the dreamiest band I've ever danced to." "And you're the dreamiest girl I ever danced with." He has fun at summer camp, talking with the fellows over chow ("I feel plenty rugged after my first morning!") shooting machine guns ("Boy, this training sure is like the real thing!"), meeting bathing girls at the pool ("Kinda makes me wish I was a local boy!"). At the end of the four-year whirl, he is chosen to escort the campus queen...
...couple of nights ago we stopped in the tunnel. At dinner time they told us we were going for chow in groups of 30. I was in the first group. They marched us up the track and made us sit in a little straw. Then I watched the guard throw the safety on his burp gun. I thought he was just doing it to scare us. But when he started firing I fell over and played dead. I prayed too. In the confusion I ran across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another...
...German people began to look at him. He took to packing two .45s, remarked loudly, "If some German thinks he wants to get me, he better make sure he does it with his first shot, because I was raised with a pistol in my hand." Once, just after chow in an Army mess, he turned violently ill, was certain the German cooks had poisoned him. He was delighted when the Army returned him to the U.S., felt better still last March when it shipped him half a world away from Germany, to duty on Eniwetok Atoll in the mid-Pacific...