Word: commando
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Machine clunking and whirring through a million U.S. living rooms last year. He also gave the world the Kissy Doll and the Robot Commando. Most Glass toys embody several principles: 1) they are big (so that they "participate with a child"); 2) they are made of plastic, with all of plastic's built-in obsolescence; 3) they are eminently TV-promotable...
...first stand clarinents, the woodwinds were sometimes painfully shrill, and attacks were not always clean. Perhaps because of inferior equipment rather than lack of playing skill, the percussion section did not have the clean staccato required by Persichetti, Kurka in the Good Soldier Schweik, and Barber in his Commando March...
Coach Jordan Olivar has hardly used his Commando (offensive) unit at all in the past two contests, and he has been forced to make extremely judicious use of his individual substitutions whenever the ball has changed since several of the players on the first two units are now cast in slightly anomalous roles...
Battle lines shifted crazily. A British commando received a message from headquarters: "You must retake Marina Beach." He wired back: "This is impossible. I've never lost it." In the dark, German Mark IV tanks were confused with U.S.-made Shermans. "D'you know,'' a British soldier muttered, "I actually peed against one of those tanks, thinking it was British. Blimey...
...American sergeant maneuvered his antitank gun to the top of a ridge, demolished six tanks in half an hour. A British major given up for lost behind enemy lines reappeared with an enemy halftrack in tow, plus an 88-mm. gun and a dozen prisoners. A fiery British commando lieutenant colonel named Jack Churchill,* waving a sword in one hand, took 30 prisoners singlehanded. When an admiring if puzzled superior asked why the sword, Churchill replied: "In my opinion, any officer who goes into action without a sword is improperly dressed...