Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily-theme course. Commissioned a Marine lieutenant on graduation in 1940 (he is now a retired light colonel), he was in flight school on Dec. 7, 1941. After a series of courses in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., Pilot Seamon was assigned to a photo-mapping outfit. At the controls of a PB4Y-I, he and his crew dodged flack and fought off enemy fighters to make a map for the invasion of Guam...
Special Experience. His outfit, Durieux said, finds its membership in the French administration in Algeria, "and in particular, policemen and retired policemen. Above all, there were the Corsicans living in North Africa." Was the French government's Deuxieme Bureau (counterespionage) involved? "I could not comment on the possibility that individual members of the service are in sympathy with us," he said...
...rapidly the sophomores develop. With Dartmouth, the present title holder, and Yale ready to make impressive bids for the top, the Crimson must become a cohesive unit early in the game. If it does not, Cambridge will have to wait another year for a really first rate outfit. But the spirit is excellent, and the passing and hustle so far have been more than adequate. As Weiland said, "the boys are anxious to get started. They think they can do something...
...thing that may be said for this fall's football team, in addition to the fact that it was the best outfit John Yovicsin or anyone else has turned out at Harvard in some time, is that it was imaginative...
...gore and gallantry of the assault troops slashing their way onto Omaha and Utah beaches through the underbrush of mines, barbed wire, antitank and antipersonnel devices, while being Jashed by bullets, mortar and artillery fire from the German Atlantic Wall. As one British marine classically understated it when his outfit was dumped 50 yards offshore and forced to swim through a hail of machine-gun fire: "Perhaps we're intruding. This seems to be a private beach...