Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief worried about possible decimation of the College's pigeon population. "They're multiplying so damn fast they're becoming a nuisance," he said...
Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...
...first provision attacked by the petitions, which bear over 2,000 names is the "stool pigeon" clause, This clause compels students to inform upon their fellows who have associated with any organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General...
Since loyalty oaths are a "partially effective" method to check on loyalty, the Navy has every right to check loyalties in the NROTC with a pledge in which the "steel pigeon clause" is deleted, the HYRC concluded...
...petitions that students will be requested to sign ask for elimination of the certificate's so-called "stool pigeon clause." That section of the certificate requires NROTC students to report other persons known to the signer as having associated with groups listed as subversive by the attorney general...