Word: platooned
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...armed with a platoon of pro prospects, Cozza prepares for the biggest challenge of his coaching career. He admits Harvard is tough: "any team with a kicker [Rich Szaro] who has trouble deciding which foot to use from the 35-yard line has got to be tough." But Yale, he believes, is tougher...
...beyond what Colonel Pell rightly calls "academic/administrative issues" such as merely depriving ROTC of course credit. The "right" to be trained by ROTC as an officer in the United States Armed Forces is an opportunity, in Colonel Pell's words, to "stand at the head of a platoon of 44 other young Americans" who are destroying Vietnam and other nations in order to stop popular social revolutions. Morally, then, there is no "right" to be part of an organization like ROTC...
...immoderates as Ramparts and Evergreen. The result has been the rise of a new generation of political caricaturists who consider no public figure too sacred, no insult too excessive. The front lines are manned by established satirists like Jules Feiffer, David Levine and Ronald Searle. Behind them, a new platoon of caricaturists is fast moving up. And one of the best is a Manhattan commercial artist named Edward Sorel...
...they nearly die of gratitude. To be a real human being you need something to give your life purpose and take your freedom away, you need something to belong to, the corporation, the force, the platoon, the kiwanis, the brigade...
...guards the strategic Y Bridge in Saigon, dutifully fills in MACV Form 10. He no longer cringes when his buddies rib him about the re port and his peculiar command-a laudable sign of self-control. For MACV Form 10 is the Geese Reaction Report, and Schreiner's platoon includes 40-odd riflemen and a gaggle of six belligerent geese...