Search Details

Word: interplatoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...most part, the Marines are living under wartime conditions. Sunday barbecues are now rare, while the showings of videotaped major league baseball and the vigorous interplatoon softball, volleyball and basketball competitions of the past are gone. Also suspended are the daily four-or five-mile runs that the Marines took along the road circling their encampment, as well as the routine 15-to 20-man patrols of the streets of Hay es Sullum. Now the soldiers seldom venture far from their bunkers. Under what they call the shade tree, the men relax on bright orange lawn chairs donated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listening for That Whistle | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

| 1 |