Word: loth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking neither to right nor left, as though talking into space or lecturing, as he used to before a Russian class in economics. He talked in Russian; at previous conferences he used English. He repeated himself; twelve times he used the phrase "postpone consideration of the question until the loth of April." He evaded rather than answered questions...
Colonel James A. Kilian, former commandant of Lichfield's ill-famed loth Reinforcement Depot, squared his shoulders last week at the court-martial of one of his prison guards, glared at the assistant prosecutor, and rasped...
...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...
...trial before a U.S. court-martial in London was Sergeant Judson H. Smith-one of twelve men charged with cruelty to G.I. prisoners in the guardhouse of the loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield. But last week, as the story of repeated brutalities (TIME, Dec. 31) continued to unfold, lowly Sergeant Smith became almost the forgotten man at his own trial. The accusing finger pointed higher & higher up the chain of command...
Last winter the U.S. 10th Mountain Division-skiers turned mountain fighters -swept across the Apennines, took Mt. Belvedere, which two other divisions had attacked in vain. There died Torger Tokle, the towheaded ex-Brooklyn carpenter who became America's greatest ski jumper. The loth, only U.S. division trained for combat on skis, boasted names big in American skiing: Walter Prager, Percy Rideout, Don Goodman, Weir Stewart, John Litchfield. This winter many of them will be back in competition...