Word: handson
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...true that cadets still must perform push-ups-but no longer over a bayonet; the yearly dose of close-order drill has been slashed by 70 per cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...