Word: men
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When my men discover the approach of a patrol party, they withhold action until they hear the marauders encounter our barbed-wire entanglements running down the slopes on all sides...
...traveled (and slept) in a caravan consisting of a trailer towed by a small coupe. Unlike his brother and successor on the throne, who was kept well back and whose trail he did not cross, he visited the foremost zones. His mission: to inquire into and report on the men's morale, quality of food and quarters, supply of toothbrushes, cigarets and the like, requests for reading matter. Every night, by a dim blue light in the trailer, he wrote a letter to his Duchess, who plans to run a war hospital on the French Riviera...
...When you are with these highly professional soldiers, men who have been fighting this kind of guerrilla warfare most of their lives, you cannot help feeling unbounded confidence...
...becomes a sort of No Man's Land, with patrols on both sides operating through the valleys. The Germans never fail to send patrols nightly. They operate in groups of 40, preceded by highly trained dogs which come to a silent 'point' when they scent other men...
...Fridays Joe takes his wife to the movies with some friends "from up the road." They gather in Joe's house before the show "so that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and on rare occasions he takes Gertrude "uptown" to the theatre. "They spring a dinner at one of the smart Manhattan joints, jostle in the crowds, and rubberneck the lights of the Great White...