Word: noncom
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...built-in knack for getting into trouble (when he is detailed to beat carpets for the sergeant major's wife, she offers herself to him on a carpet just as her husband comes along). Inevitably, he is a butt for all the sadistic tricks that a bullying noncom can devise. He is brought to the brink of suicide...
...three-week smallpox epidemic slowed to a halt after catching 68, killing 14. Among the dead: two infants, a local health official. During the scare, more than 150,000 Bretons were vaccinated, along with all travelers and tourists. Cited as the bearer of the smallpox virus: a French army noncom just back from Indo-China...
...weekends Widmark switches from glowering at recruits to glowering at pretty Elaine Stewart, a crazy, mixed-up kid who cannot stay away from soldiers, apparently because her soldier-husband was killed in Korea. Despite all its predictable moments-Widmark has a fight with another noncom, is nearly shot by one of his resentful recruits, makes a man of the weakling, falls in love with the girl but stays true to the Army-High Ground manages to generate a clumsy, convincing power. But not many ex-soldiers are likely to concede that 16 weeks of basic training -even under such...
...Sept. 2, 1945, less than four months after war's end-and Berlin lay in its ruins. At the door of an apartment on rubble-heaped Kurfürstendamm, a British noncom banged imperatively. A man answered. "Are you Klose?" the noncom demanded. Hans Klose answered yes, and his five-year nightmare began...
...officers sentenced to be shot. ''You have three important prisoners here," she told a sergeant major. "If you shoot them, I will see to it that you yourself are shot when the Americans reach here." The authority in her words and manner was too much for the noncom. The gates were opened and the four walked out. "It was the bravest deed I ever saw," said one of the officers later...