Word: herds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has 1,600 acres, a small endowment, a herd of 40 cattle, a new beef barn just completed by its students. Last week old Dr. Andy, now 75 and retired, noted with satisfaction that his little school was giving a good account of itself beyond, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Seventy of his boys, nearly a third of all who have graduated from his junior college, went off to fight for their country. One, Marine Elza O'Neal, was captured on Wake Island ("Send more Japs"); another, Lieut. William R. Ussery, was killed...
...Dorothy Lamour. A foursome composed of this comedy team and a colorless love team are shipwrecked on a Lamour island, where the whole squad wastes an hour of celluloid trapping the usual hard-boiled spy ring. Costello canters around in a ridiculous costume, dodging palm trees, spears, and a herd of dusky sarongsterettes who think it's Sadie Hawkin's day. He ends up out of breath, prying adoring arms off his bulging neck, and, as always, a Quixotic hero...
...That children, women, men, fathers, mothers should be treated as a wretched herd, that members of the same family should be separated from one another and embarked for unknown destinations, was a sad spectacle reserved for our times...
...summer march, a mountain unit like the 87th Infantry Mountain Regiment (first in the U.S. Army) has four components: 1) hand-led mules with equipment (weapons of various calibers, tents, stoves, etc.); 2) mules with supplies (food and extra ammunition), traveling 52 in a herd with 16 soldiers mounted; 3) trucks, which leave the troops to bypass rough terrain; 4) men on foot...
...Harrovian had been trying to put a good face on things with a bit of guff, he had been ingenuous. The left-wing Tribune screamed bloody murder: "The best people stood by us. What the common herd did doesn't matter. British imperial rule defined in a flash!" Sir Reginald thereupon edited his remarks. Only 4,000 of Burma's 15,000,000 people had actively helped the Japs, said he; they were extremists of the nationalist Thakin Party...