Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roundup. By 10 in the morning Lieut. General Ruediger von Heyking had surrendered. When the masters of the master race capitulated, the rank & file became totally bewildered. Some fled south to escape through the fields but fell in droves before our small-arms fire. Within the perimeter organized by our armored division around Mons no front or rear existed. Headquarters troops and MPs who normally do not do any fighting captured over 600 thoroughly demoralized Germans. Confused and rioting German enlisted men often broke away from officers to surrender. Some German officers sent notes to our lines saying that they...
...officers formed the influential Order of the Cincinnati, but there was no political bloc of the veterans' rank & file. Not until 1818 did needy ex-enlisted men begin receiving pensions-of $8 per month. Another ten years passed before all Continentals who had served to the war's end were pensioned to the full amount of their service pay. Thus the post-Revolution U.S. began the persisting practice of waiting until the veteran has become a gaffer before giving him effective help...
...opposite of a backslapper, Crerar has his own way of showing approval: he leans gradually sidewise toward the other man until their shoulders touch. His main social gambit is a bawdy story, diffidently told. He keeps a methodical file of these stories, to which his officers contribute regularly, each story being neatly written out on a piece of paper...
...rainy twilight gathered, a closed van crawled through the hooting, whistling crowd. The firing squad marched in single file to a point opposite the six posts and the factory wall. The van door opened. The six Milice stepped out. A Maquis grasped each prisoner...
Exploiting the present world tragedy, Hollywood has manufactured a series of war pictures that makes soldiers overseas practically retch, and causes even entertainment-hungry troops to file out of movies before a picture ends, expressing their disgust and scorn with jeers and boos and very much-to-the-point one-word descriptions. They have just "seen themselves" portrayed on the screen a la Hollywood's idiotic hoopla. Some marcelled hero with rouged lips and a do-or-die voice has just charged a Jap battalion with six grenades clenched between his Pep-sodent-perfect molars, a Tommy...