Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feets") Adams, of Grand Rapids, Mich. When she twitted him on the size of his feet (14EE-largest issued by the U.S. Army), Private Adams turned Sergeant Churchill over his knee, gave her about 30 good-natured whacks. Said his buddy: "You know how new noncoms are." He added: "Feets is a big guy, six foot three in his socks, with hands to match. He just laid it on. She's a regular guy and, like her old man, can take...
...repeatedly slapped until her face was cut. [CBS Representative Walter R.] Wills was slapped during the whole examination period, lasting more than three months. He was forced to squat for hours in Japanese fashion, with the result that he still is suffering an injury to his left knee. [Jasper N.] Bellinger was slapped, kicked on the shins and forced to stand for hours with his hands above his head...
Chest Out. Preflight's track is not the track of the Olympic Games but a specialty called military track. Its main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time...
Delta Kappa Epsilon ("Deke") opened an ice-cream bar. Undergraduates strolled up & down Elm Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...
...story called "Learn to Fight Dirty." (To dispose of an enemy sentry, "jump on his back, reach both arms around his neck and shove a foot against the back of his knee. The impact is guaranteed to double him up like a jackknife and if you twist at the same time you'll sever his spinal cord...