Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some from a Government-sponsored trade school (West Point), to say what captured fighting men should do; they are too old ever to be faced with the problem ... I flew 49 missions during World War II and was often briefed on P.W. status under the old (Geneva) rules ... To expect draftees to submit to the new code is to raise a new crop of "conchies." To expect men to resist the combination of physical and mental torture known to be practiced by the Chinese Reds without the aid of extensive training on the same level as the inquisitors is like...
...Soldier's Code when we have read about a man of God-a man whose very strength and being rested with God-who broke and signed a confession under Communistic torture? Cardinal Mindszenty's faith could not sustain him in his hours of torture. Why should we expect our men to be able to do better...
...most important changes was to take the primary responsibility for re-enlistment out of the recruiting service and to place it in the hands of the unit commanders. A telephone-book-sized fact file (The Packaged Program for Reenlistment) has been sent to all commanders ; they are expected to know it and to be able to use it to sell reenlistment. No man is permitted to pick up his discharge papers without an interview with his immediate commander, who gives him a booklet laying out the advantages of an Air Force career. Even after discharge, the Air Force keeps trying...
...human body," says Colonel Stapp, "comes in only two shapes and three colors. I don't expect there will be any changes, so what we learn about it now will serve us for a long time to come...
...Cantor et al. Wouk's job was to clip and card-index old jokes and to clean up the off-color items. Two years later he was hired as a radio gagwriter by Fred Allen. His special chore for the Allen-program: the "People You Didn't Expect to Meet" interview, for which he unearthed weirdies, e.g., a goldfish doctor, a worm salesman and "the man who inserts the cloves in the hams you see in Lindy's window." Allen also credits Wouk with such skits as "Detective One Long Pan Was Disguised as a Girdle...