Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lorenzo Patterson, Negro attorney and a well-known and voluble mouthpiece of the Communist Party. First he refused to obey the committee's order to surrender records of his Communist-controlled Civil Rights Congress, which the committee had asked for. Then he began explaining certain expenditures by his outfit...
...Pendleton, the 1st's postwar training was the most rugged and exacting that any peacetime U.S. outfit got. Explained one Marine officer: "A kid reports for boot camp and we challenge the s.o.b., we dare him to try and be a Marine. We give him so much of that in boot camp-and even flunk some of them out-that when he gets out, he's the proudest damn guy in the world, because he can call himself a United States Marine. He's nothing but a damn private but you'd think...
Last week, on its 175th birthday, the Medical Service of the U.S. Army was, in the words of Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss, "in the most difficult place it has ever been in-Korea." Over the years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics...
...stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight time over all other west coast squadrons. All of the pilots were combat veterans, all but eight were married...
...Cassino slopes, Gühler's outfit is torn to shreds by U.S. artillery. Prodded by Gühler, the few remaining men surrender. At this point Beyond Defeat picks up in excitement, for now there begins a new war, subterranean and ferocious, between those German prisoners still loyal to the Fuhrer and those who would cast off the Nazi curse...