Word: noncom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noncom, who was practicing at one of the stations, "at about 7:02 a.m. . . . discovered what he thought was a large flight of planes slightly east of north of Oahu, at a distance of about 130 miles. He reported this fact at 7:20 a.m. to a lieutenant of the Army who was at the central information center. . . . This inexperienced lieutenant . . . assumed that the planes in question were friendly planes, and took no action with respect to them...
...U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about it on the spot, and errors have to be corrected, no matter how long it takes. They are taught how to take care of latrines...
...intersections to direct motorized cavalry and infantrymen in trucks. Governor Payne Ratner was captured at his big white mansion while he was at breakfast. His two sons laughed at the show, but his tiny daughter squalled. Over at the Statehouse the Governor was lined up with other hostages. A noncom grated, "Take off your hats...
...Actually Semion Budenny is a man. He has lots of brawn on his fine body, but he also has more than his share of bone between his ears. He always was, and probably still is, a great fighter. But he is not a strategist. He is still a cavalry noncom of incredible dash and dumbness...
...improving, that of the German Occupation was not. France was near a state of national revolt. In Paris a night-walking German civilian was savagely beaten up. Pistols suddenly cracked in the streets-at a Nazi sergeant, at a civilian official of the Occupation Army, at a second Nazi noncom. Marcel Gitton, a former Communist deputy who had recently played ball with the Nazis, was shot dead by a young bicyclist in blue jeans and a beret. Despite death sentences threatened for railway sabotage, roundhouse turntables on the Paris-Brittany main line were blown...