Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvardman Conant, himself a graduate of the 308-year-old independent Roxbury Latin School, the "first-rate comprehensive high school" is the ideal for America. "More than one foreign observer has remarked that . . . free schools, where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician . . . labor leader and manual worker have studied and played together . . . are an American invention. That such schools should be maintained and made even more democratic and comprehensive seems to me to be essential for the future of this republic...
...TIME] could know that the actual vote was six to three ... is a mystery . . since the Manual for Courts Martial . , . states: "Only the required percentage of members who concurred in findings of guilty shall be announced...
...reflected in the headlines, telling of fresh furrows in the "dead zone" which the Reds are digging between their own sector of Berlin and Communist East Germany beyond. It shows in shabby gangs of unemployed who shovel slush out of ice-clogged streets-obviously refugees unused to manual labor...
...Rainbow of Chaos. The National Assembly ranks with pousse cafe as a peculiarly French concoction. The pousse café is one of the most unnecessary drinks in the bartender's manual-a frivolous combination of liqueurs and cognacs, one poured gingerly atop the other to avoid blending them together. Each ingredient forms one bar in a rainbow of alcoholic chaos, each flavor nullifying the taste of the next, all falling into murky disarray if jiggled by a shaky hand. The Assembly is the pousse café of parliament...
...drink it, or carry it with you, bury it.' This is known as field sanitation." Of K.P. duty, Reed wrote: "There's only one thing worse than pulling [it] a first time, and that's pulling it a second time . . ." Of the Manual of Arms: "I have learned to do just about everything with my rifle except shoot the doggone thing." Occasionally, Reed gave advice to future recruits, e.g., "Don't volunteer for anything. I've said this before as a civilian, and as a soldier I can't emphasize it too much...