Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That D-day on June 22, 1941 was like so many other German D-days: a complete pushover. Lying at the edge of the woods with his infantry platoon only 20 yards from the Bug River, Corporal Gnotke saw the small Russian-held village on the other side pulverized in a matter of minutes by German planes and guns. When the infantry attacked, there was no resistance, only dazed old people and the smell of burning flesh. As a newly arrived lieutenant had reflected the night before: "The Führer can work wonders...
...Octopus. In 1950 on Formosa, Chiang Ching-kuo came into his own. He organized the political department of the Ministry of National Defense. He established "political officers" in every echelon down to platoon level and even among the guerrilla forces operating on the mainland. Their mission: to indoctrinate the troops for Nationalist China, against the Communists. Orders issued by unit commanders had to be countersigned by the unit political officers, who got their orders from Chiang Ching-kuo and were responsible only to him. They also functioned as a secret police. (In 1951 a top-ranking general was accused...
...NCAA football rules committee yesterday voted to keep one-platoon ball for another season. After hearing some 40 proposals to liberalize the limited substitution rule the committee turned them all down in favor of the 1953 rule...
...Phyllis Ann Jenkins, and last February was shipped off to Korea with the 1st Marine Division. One night just a month later, Corpsman Hammond found himself in a hell on earth-bleeding from wounds and pinned down by murderous mortar and artillery fire with other men of a Marine platoon which was attempting to assault an enemy outpost far in advance of the main line of battle...
Little, Columbia coach and chairman of the rules committee of the AFCA, said 189 other coaches urged a return to the wide open play of previous years, while 257 more voted to liberalize the 1953 regulations but not make them as liberal as under the two platoon plan...