Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer the same...
Eruptions and Opinions. One month before George Catlett Marshall declared for conscription in 1940, the Journal authoritatively reported that the Army was against it. In September 1943, it hinted authoritatively that General Marshall would be "kicked upstairs" from his Chief of Staff job. Three months later, its authoritative guess was that a British general would lead the invasion. These wrong guesses were dropped in beside carefully compiled lists of official orders, communiqués, casualty lists (usually, officers only) and social notes on the doings of the officer caste-all reported as staidly as in the Journal's rival...
Rodriguez, onetime cab driver and amateur boxer from Neptune, N.J. and now a military policeman, is famous in the Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
...tried to keep it in Munich after the war, but the peacemakers of 1919 ordered its return to Alsace. Between wars, it was kept in the Colmar Museum. Last week, when the bare facts of Captain Ross's discovery first became known, nobody knew or even tried to guess why the Nazis left such a treasure behind when they were being pushed out of Alsace...
...down, and when he got me down a little ways, he suddenly turned on me and shoved a gag in my mouth and tied me up with wire. And he took one of my shoes off so I couldn't run so well if I got away, I guess...