Word: noncom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audiences were almost never alert to such real crises, but on the other hand were upset by trifles: their most violent reaction (lasting an entire act) was to an actor's inadvertently addressing a commissioned officer as a noncom. Audiences in general, Newman decided, have an "average mental age" of between...
...Pilot Officer Claude Weaver Ill, 22, of Oklahoma City. Weaver enlisted in 1941, won a D.F.M. as a noncom, then a D.F.C. as an officer...
Every enlisted man was a noncom except for a few private ratings, kept handy for "busting" unruly members. The Force wore its own branch insignia (crossed arrows), its own shoulder flash (a vertical "Canada" lettered on an arrow, topped by a horizontal "U.S.A...
Northern Negroes had plenty of chance to observe the historical political practices of the South. Said a Negro noncom: "On D-day there was all kinds of talk about democracy. But two days later white men with guns refused to allow Negroes to vote in the Columbus (Ga.) city primary...
Killed in Action. Staff Sergeant John Aloysius Bushemi, 26, probably the best-known noncom in the Pacific area (one of Yank's finest cameramen), Iowa-born buddy of Sergeant Marion Hargrove (See Here, Private Hargrove); on the Eniwetok beachhead...