Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announced that with regret he had abandoned plans to attend the annual reunion of his old World War I outfit, the 35th Division, at Topeka, Kans.-the first he has missed since becoming President...
Lucas-who now represents U.S. automobile finance dealers-cried that it was "unconscionable and inequitable." Myers is now a Washington representative for an outfit called the National Foundation for Consumer Credit. He is wiser now. he said. "A Senator is against inflation and somebody hands him something like Regulation W, and he hasn't much time and he's told it's against inflation so he accepts it ... People should be educated as this Senator-after study, thought and consideration-was. The fact is," he added righteously, "Regulation W is highly inflationary...
...outfit famed for its toughness, leathery, rock-jawed Brigadier General Lewis Burwell Puller, U.S.M.C., is as tough as they come. In the '20s, as a young marine, he led native troops against bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua, so awed his troops with his parade-ground voice and his gallantry in battle that they named him El Tigre. By 1932, "Chesty" Puller had won two Navy Crosses and was well on his way to becoming a legend of the Corps. He served with the "Horse Marines" at Peking, with the famed 4th Marines at Shanghai in the days...
Last September, after studying railroad construction during his basic training period, Wang was made a platoon leader in an artillery unit of General Tsung Tsu-yu's army. It was a fairly well equipped outfit of between 20,000 and 30,000 men. Each company had 50 or 60 rifles with 120 rounds per rifle, ten or twelve submachine guns with 200 rounds, two 60-mm. mortars with 30 or 40 rounds, and 15 antitank grenades. Each man had four hand grenades...
Wang's outfit was in the rear; his buddies in advanced positions would have a different story to tell, but most are not around to tell it. The Chinese reinforcements never had a chance to move up. Wang saw perhaps one killed and two wounded in his own battalion by artillery, another 50 wounded and taken back north. He had not learned that in his area, one company of 120 was down to 40, another company had 30 wounded in strafing by U.N. planes. He did not see mound after mound with the epitaph: "Here lies a warrior...