Word: noncom
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...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...
Perhaps a stupid noncom or officer had got John started on his military career on the wrong foot. At any rate, in the transition from civilian to military life, John had gone wrong, changed from a quiet, useful citizen to a maladjusted anti-social character...
...their instructors (five officers and eight noncoms to each company) they were addressed as "Gentlemen." They ate well-better than the average Marine. But they had also worked harder. And when they had muffed their jobs they had felt the sharp edge of a noncom's bladed tongue. (Good God, if you're officers I'm a Chinaman...