Word: outfits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when only 25 new members were elected a year, a few revolutionary spirits founded a new outfit, the American Federation for Clinical Research (which promptly became "the Young Young Turks"), with parallel aims and fewer rules. Because the chief founder was Harvard's late great Professor Henry Christian, the group is also known as "the Young Men's Christian Association...
Some of the militiamen in Orwell's outfit were mere children, all were badly trained, few knew how to fire a rifle. Orwell, who had once been a policeman in Burma, was appalled when he was handed his weapon, an 1896 German Mauser with a corroded barrel. Assigned to a section on the Aragon front, his ragged company of 100 went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry...
...December 1936, a 33-year-old Englishman named Eric Blair arrived in Barcelona to have a look at Spain's civil war and write some pieces about it. A radical in politics and an antiFascist, he decided to fight instead, and enlisted in a militia outfit. Seven months later, badly used up and sporting the scars of a near-fatal bullet hole through his neck, he went back to England and wrote a book about his experience. It was not a popular book because it was antiCommunist, and the fashion then was to cheer the Communist-controlled "Popular Front...
...glamour days of World War II. There was little of the "tiger" (Korea equivalent for "eager beaver") about them. They were cool, experienced, careful, sometimes sardonic. They liked to call themselves the "Christmas help," and they liked to point out that the average B-29 in the outfit was carrying the fathers of ten children...
...Indians have won their only game of the year, against Kimball Union, and Coach Eddy Jeremiah calls his team "a good freshman outfit." Either Bob Feltman or Ward Rowley will be the starting Indian pitcher...