Word: furloughing
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When a harassed, middle-aged soldier turned up at Fort McPherson, Ga., to report back after a ten-day leave, he was promptly tossed into the guardhouse. His ten-day leave had lasted 22 years, six months, 13 days. When he had finished his furlough in May 1919, he decided to stay home because he felt emotionally upset. Later, feeling better, he went back to the fort; his outfit had disappeared. In 1932, when he tried to straighten things out through the War Department, the Department coldly advised him that he was classified as a deserter, but "didn...
...inevitable as the happy ending the virtues of national defense make a forced and over-obnoxious entrance into the picture when the drafted Montgomery, who had never been able to match his brother in a trial of fisticuffs, comes back, on furlough and knocks Preston Foster on his ear. This finishes the business...
...during her first year in India, Missionary Reed chanced to visit a hill-country colony of 500 lepers and became interested in their plight. In 1891, on her first furlough home to the U.S., she learned she had become a leper herself. Without telling her friends, she returned to India, started work among the lepers at Chandag. Because lepers have very little strength, most leprosariums have some non-leper helpers. Chandag had none. Miss Reed preached, healed, built a church and then dormitories, nursed her lepers, organized them into a self-helping community...
...Army had already taken a decisive step toward improving discipline: bringing up 18,000 new officers (see col. 3) while it was weeding out the backward. In the armies of Ben Lear and Walter Krueger are more good officers than sluggards. Soldiers returning to posts from furlough are likely to find life different-and tougher...
...soldier, he may get a furlough to fight now & then during the next 18 months, as Bummy Davis, Fred Apostoli, Steve Belloise and other enlisted men have done. But Broadway fightmongers last week predicted that Joe will do what he has always hoped to do: retire undefeated champion of the world-as Gene Tunney did, but without benefit of Shakespeare...