Word: noncom
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...silent drill of the 558th Infantry Rifle Platoon, a crack Negro outfit which used to be General Lucius Clay's honor guard; the soldiers went without music or orders through intricate, breathtakingly precise evolutions that would have overwhelmed the British Grenadiers-or the Rockettes. Exclaimed one former Wehrmacht noncom: "Why, they're practically better than the Prussians...
...pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn't hear the commands of their drill sergeant, a noncom of impressive voice who was known as "Screaming Skull...
...described was Communist "General Gomez," commander of the Loyalist XIII Brigade, later chief of staff of all the International Brigades. He was really Hans Zaisser, born in 1893 in the Ruhr. In World War I, Zaisser fought as a German noncom. Later he joined the Red military organization (M-Apparat), was a leader in the 1923 abortive uprisings in the Rhineland. When Hitler came in, he fled to Soviet Russia...
Along Nanking Road, Shanghai's main business street, Red soldiers herded captured Nationalists into filling stations. When an angry crowd of civilians turned on a frightened Nationalist soldier, Red troops dispersed them. At one busy corner, a Communist noncom stood guard over a lone Nationalist soldier who squatted self-consciously in a doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served...
...would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...