Word: platoonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the cleft hot wear the A-L's and the psychologists is firmly established (this column should be and be an inflammatory wedge by the time the psych lads have laboriously spelled their way down this far), let us start stumping for the 1st Platoon softball team, an A-L gang (naturally), and as solid a gang of ten-thumbed ball hawks as ever left three men on base in five consecutive scoreless innings...
After the Harvard intramural program gets going, the 4-platoon Specialists League will select an all-star group to represent our section of Harvard-at-war. Meanwhile, the aforementioned 1st Platoon (also known as the Left Bank Chapter of the Charles River Tombstone Carvers' and Trolley Motormen's Marching and Chowder Association, Especially Marching) is currently leading the Specialists League by virtue of having whaled the blithering daylights out of each of the other three clubs last week...
Finding, a lack of competition in its own outfit, the First Platoon of Company A of the Army Specialized Training Unit has organized a softball team that will play any and all comers in the University--service or civilian. Company A, which is quartered in McKinlock Hall of Leverett House, has been holding intra-mural games for over two weeks with the Fist Platoon emerging as victor in every contest it has played...
This was not Tunisia, but Fort Knox, Ky. Raiders were the Nazi Platoon-30 German-speaking, noncommissioned Armored Forcemen who prey on trainees out on long marches and overnight maneuvers. Faces blackened, signaling among themselves by owl hoots, the raiders fire blanks, use whistle bombs. The platoon averages five day or night raids a week. It specializes in mess sergeants (thereby canceling dinner) and tired stragglers...
...platoon was organized two months ago to pound into green soldiers the necessity of always being on guard. Says Major General Charles L. Scott, wrinkled, sunburned boss of the Armored Force Replacement Training Center: "The German platoon is the best single thing we have done to make fighting men out of the green material that comes to us. . . . Some of the soldiers killed in Africa would be alive today if they had learned that the enemy is cunning and crafty and has to be watched every minute...