Word: echelons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education of a G.I. Like many U.S. soldiers, Burns was shocked out of his complacency by the war. Gallery is a clear measure of his distaste for the bad manners of American troops, their black marketeering, their thoughtlessly insulting treatment of Europeans. His portraits of promotion-hungry, rear-echelon officers are often bitter and embarrassingly accurate...
From one high-echelon friend, who was himself stepping down from a Government job, Scotty Reston got a big tip. In an artful story in Tuesday's Times, Reston passed it along without confirmation: "... some observers . . . believe [that] General Marshall may be asked to replace Mr. [Dean] Acheson with a view to succeeding Secretary Byrnes if, as has been reported, the latter also plans to retire...
...Strategic Air Forces headquarters to learn something of the woes of staff and command. His story is a little stagey here & there (the entrances & exits are particularly pat), but it is managed throughout with a nice mixture of sympathy and fury, and an expert's knowledge of high-echelon follies and low-echelon speech...
...finishing in an echelon--left with a single length separating first and last shells, the J.V. race supplied the finish-line audience on the West Boston Bridge with a dramatic close. Princeton held a low, easy stroke and the lead for the whole distance to win in 10:1.6, while the Crimson pulled a neck-and-neck contest out for a final ten-feet margin...
Largest of all University service schools, the Navy Supply Corps School sent over 7,700 officers, trained in supply and disbursing, to duty with almost every echelon of the far-flung war-time United States fleet. In included a branch of Waves stationed at Radcliffe...