Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argued that he was on duty during the rest period, was therefore subject to military discipline. Finally, Rear Admiral Miles H. Hubbard, U.S. representative on the joint commission which settles jurisdictional disputes, reluctantly ordered Girard turned over to the Japanese for trial with, he thought, both State Department and Pentagon approval...
...With a Pentagon veto of the plan, however, the University settled for a compromise solution two years ago. In an effort to "liberalize" military science instruction, students now take two half-course, outside the field...
...Many Cooks. Apart from technicians who thought they would qualify for the raises, nobody seemed very happy about the Wilson order. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Secretary of the Air Force, rapped it as "patchwork." Less publicly, Pentagon brass agreed with him. Trying to solve the nagging re-enlistment problem with so skimpy a measure seemed like trying to bail out a leaky rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired...
...Ryan X-13 Vertijet, long rumored and unofficially described, made its official bow at a Pentagon showing last week. Its vertical takeoff, transition to horizontal flight and vertical landing-demonstrated by a movie-were an uncanny spectacle...
Ladders over the Dead. Behind the city's seven miles of wall, in control of masses of artillery, the rebels seemed to be sitting pretty. But slowly, despite a military organization like a Pentagon without a car pool (there were only 273 miles of railway line in all India), the British moved to assault the walls they had fortified and the men they had trained. To move a division required several thousand bullocks. Elephants were the heavy-weapons carriers, and when they became casualties, disease carriers; their huge, rotting corpses littered the plains...