Word: platooned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relates his experience in a motivation platoon--"moto," as it was called. "We had to go through this long trench with mucky water, under and over barrels. And you'd better be screaming like a banshee when you come up for air. I had one more barrel to go under and as I dove down I could see an officer pissing into the ditch, just to spite me. I was so psyched I didn't blink an eye, and I broke water yelling as loud as I could...
...almost picture my platoon," says one former lieutenant, "how tall they were, where they were from, what they did-I mean, who cried and who didn't cry." An ex-grunt remembers a godlike feeling: "I could take a life, I could screw a woman, I can beat somebody up and get away with it." Another returns home to join a stickup gang: "It wasn't the money with me. I was doing things for a handshake. I wanted the adrenaline pump...
Last week, for example, all Harvard male undergraduates received applications for the Marines' Platoon Leaders Program, a training course similar to ROTC...
Exactly what does Byrne expect to accomplish? She is disarmingly frank about her immediate effect. Says Byrne: "Wherever a mayor goes there seem to be city services galore." In the apartment next door will be a contingent of police bodyguards. The city has assigned a special 28-member police platoon to the complex, and a nearby police court will be reopened soon. Last week seven area liquor stores were ordered closed, and the first of 800 eviction notices sent out to Cabrini-Green residents designated as "troublemakers." Airport-style metal detectors, intended to stop the importation of guns...
...PLATOON of notable University administrators showed up briefly at the start of Saturday's pre-Yale game rally organized by Third World student groups to protest racism at the University. Of course, any administrative recognition of the deep seriousness of the problem is welcome. But given the background of Harvard's inaction on race-related issues; given the multiplication of racial incidents on other campuses, including recent convulsions at Williams College; and given the spread of racist violence in cities across America, many students rightly look askance at this merely symbolic act of support. Deans Epps, Fox, and Moses, President...