Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bataan taught America a humiliating thing, too: that U.S. soldiers could be beaten, could be taught the fullest ignominy of unconditional surrender. And they could be given this lesson by the funny, myopic, bucktoothed, bandylegged, pint-sized Jap-who, it suddenly appeared, was taut-muscled, courageous, vastly menacing...
Destiny's agent was a Bavarian officer named Franz Hipper: an opportunistic Raeder recognized the agent. For his superior's approval he worked with selfless care, charted courses down to a minnow's fin, was everything that a junior officer should be-except in his pint size. Franz Hipper often boomed to his bantam favorite: "When I become an admiral, I'll make you my chief of staff...
...said the nurse as he walked out. "Don't mention it," he replied benignly. Just as he got to the door, however, he could not resist the temptation. He turned, struck a pose, and declared to the world at large, "My only regret is that I have but one pint to give to my country...
...troops. The famed 15th Infantry (now the 369th Coast Artillery) from Harlem stayed longer under fire (191 days) than any other regiment, yielded no prisoners, gave up no ground, suffered casualties of 40%. Negro veterans still grin delightedly when they recall the "Battle of Henry Johnson," in which a pint-size onetime Red Cap from Albany, N.Y. killed, wounded and routed a party of 25 Germans singlehanded...
Senator Tom Connolly gave more than a half pint of his blood to the Red Cross. The 64-year-old Texan was the first member of Congress to become a donor...