Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand climax to the grinding life they had been hearing about for months or years. To plebes it meant the end of their sorest year and the balm of recognition by upperclassmen. To the graduating class it marked a poignant end and a challenging beginning. And to the Long Grey Line, some of them stooped in mufti, it symbolized the yearly renewal of a strong, 143-year-old tradition to which they had devoted the best part of their lives...
...Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in the whole - Navy." For the rest of the morning and all afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell in but never out. When he finally stretched out in Beast Barracks that night, he understood exactly what they had meant at Annapolis when they spoke of "Hell on the Hudson...
...winning this war, as it has won all others in its history, and 640 out of 1,497 of the Army's present general officers are West Pointers.* First Captain (now 2nd Lieut.) Robert Woods will take his place in battle with the Long Grey Lines as soon as he has finished a course in the Infantry School at Fort Benning. Whether he will follow in the brilliant footsteps of such First Captains as Robert E. Lee, John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur, only time can tell. Whether he does or not, he is clearly a good...
Another move: tall, grey-haired Colonel John Monroe Johnson, ODT boss, recommended that the Army release 50,000 experienced railroad men to help in shifting the fighting men to the West...
...Tall, grey, imaginative Milo Bekins has consistently paced his cousins, now running the other three companies, but not in a win-or-die fashion. Everything is for the good of the family...