Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dignified, everything the Viet Nam War was not. By the end of last week the adjacent ground was a fringe of private memorial icons: messages in ink and gold glitter, photographs, candles, tiny flags and hundreds of flowers. Virginian Larry Cox, one of four survivors from a 27-man platoon, found the black granite chilling. Still, he said, "it's a first step to remind America of what...
...Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned how to drill a platoon...
...They laid him out in the living room. Russell was five. The Depression began to howl. His mother took him and a sister to live with relatives in Newark and later in Baltimore. The world became a gray hell of treeless streets and schoolyard bullies. But Baker had a platoon of entertaining uncles. There was Uncle Hal the blowhard, who turned up en route he said, to a major business deal involving "a forest full of walnut of the finest, rarest quality. Its location was known only to him. He would need great cleverness to keep New York businessmen from...
...learned to live with it, my private martyrdom. So I was more or less prepared to grit it out again in the army, Willingly or Knott (Ha!). What I wasn't ready for was the conglomeration of certified wise guys and punsters called the I and R platoon. They decided my nickname must be Wont or Won't; only the spelling was contended...
...food and beer. New enough to contribute food and beer. New York newspapers and TV stations showed a serene Cruz sitting back and reading a book while the world quite literally rushed by. But alarmed city officials sent a couple of psychiatrists to size him up and then a platoon of police to take him away for further tests. When social workers offered him lodging in one of the city's shelters for the homeless, Cruz sniffed: "The shelters are pigpens." Said one local newspaper columnist: "He must have been one of the sanest men in the city...