Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On the theory that marines do not pause in combat for pullups and pushups, he has discarded such exercises from the annual physical fitness tests, instead has his men climb ropes, march three miles, dash 50 yards to retrieve a presumably wounded buddy while being timed by a stopwatch. He...
His orders: "Get used to the field mice, screech owls, coyotes and katydids." Searching Their Faces. Apart from his performance, his brusque manner and salty language has endeared him to the corps. An Indiana farm boy who took a math major at DePauw University and went directly into the Marines...
Son of a German soldier named Feigenbaum who was killed during World War II, Uelses came to the U.S. in 1949, moved in with a great-aunt in Miami and took his aunt's name. In high school he ran hurdles, vaulted and played football, won a track scholarship...
And it is dangerous. In Salt Lake City, where there had been an alarming rise in arrests of "nice boys" as well as chronic juvenile offenders on drunk charges, police found that the youngsters were indeed horrendously drunk, but without a trace of alcohol in their systems. Glue-sniffing parties...
The sales message, addressed to 10,122 Roman Catholic teen-agers from 15 states, came hard and soft. The Servants of the Most Holy Trinity propped up a sketch of four black-robed missionaries raising a cross, like marines planting the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. Ohio's Sisters...