Word: platooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in New Delhi, U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren and his wife received a warm, top-drawer greeting as a platoon of Cabinet ministers, a horde of judges and a mass of minor officials swarmed at the airport under a broiling sun and presented the visitors with six bouquets of flowers and batches of garlands. It was a command performance. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had been shown a dispatch printed in a U.S. newspaper reporting the cool kiss-off the Warrens had gotten when they arrived...
...Sleeping Prince with Actor-Director Laurence Olivier, blonde, swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe dashed out for a bit of shopping in Regent Street and virtually incited to riot again. Passers-by recognized her as she stepped out of her car, and traffic was jammed to a dead stop until a platoon of bobbies appeared to disperse the crowds. Earlier, Marilyn's Pulitzer-Prizewinning husband, Playwright Arthur Miller (whom Marilyn now calls "popsie-wopsie," while he calls her "poopsie-woopsie"), said that he would interrupt his honeymoon with Marilyn and fly home early this week "to see my children." Miller added...
From the protected podium of their Chicago convention hall, a platoon of Democratic orators laid about them right and left. Samples...
...legend of the corps. He barked that the Marines' only mission is "success in battle," added that if "we are to win the next war," the nation's youth must get a lot more of the kind of training that Matt McKeon had tried to give Recruit Platoon 71 at Parris Island. Both he and General Pate, Puller roared, "agree and regret that this man was ever ordered to trial...
...absorbs some of the rules of artful dodging in the service, e.g., "Never give your right name to anybody; otherwise they've got you," gets involved in a harebrained "Operation Hatrack" conceived by "Uncle Bertie," otherwise Brigadier General Bertram Tracepurcel. Uncle Bertie's scheme: to disguise a platoon of British Tommies as Nazis, send them into Germany to snatch a cache of art treasures which Uncle Bertie plans to sell on the British black market...