Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. Colonel Julian (The Bull Moose) Frisbie said as they started their hike across the ridges: " 'Have you ever seen men killed on the field of battle?' 'No, the only dead people I've ever seen were drowned.' 'Well,' he said, 'you'll probably see some out of this push. . . . It's a pathetic sight. You'll see. They look just like dirty-faced little boys who have gone to bed without being tucked in by their mothers...
...Epicurus never had anything on the soldier I heard telling his buddy in line his ambition when the war was over. We had been out on a four-hour hike with full packs, and had stopped for the ten minutes rest which comes after every hour of marching. I was checking over some of the men's packs, which seemed to be out of adjustment and were cutting off the circulation in their arms. It was very cold and one big brawny lad, whose teeth were chattering like castanets, was saying to an appreciative audience, 'Yes sir, this...
...Canterbury last spring, Britons have become increasingly aware that their traditionally staid and conservative Church of England is now headed by a pair of Christian revolutionaries. Last week both of these Anglican prelates-joke-loving William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, and hike-loving Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York and Primate of England-got up on the same platform in smoky Birmingham and spoke words that put the Church on the side of Socialism, if not of revolution...
...took his arm and pulled him to what she called Paradise Pond. Provided by the administration, she said, for the aid and encouragement of the girls. "Hup two three four, hup two three" plopped out from the path, and there was Company J on a hike. "The've taken over a lot of the grounds," he said as she walked him back up the hill...
...Worst rainy nite. ... I was just lying in the mud, soaked and stinking, all night. Somehow stronger today. Foot healing, too. If I could get real food, think could hike around mt. Seems too bad to die when maybe could struggle to a village...