Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average citizen what the U.S. military tradition consists of and he might mumble something about plenty of planes, tanks and guns. In Eleven Generals, Military Chronicler Fletcher Pratt argues that the unique U.S. contribution is something different: the inbred American conviction that "wars are ultimately won through the aimed fire of individuals...
From the Revolution on, Pratt thinks, the basis of U.S. military success has been the well-tempered amateur squinting down a rifle barrel. "Don't fire till you can see the whites of their eyes" was plain common sense to colonials facing the parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition...
Finally, the CRIMSON came to bat in the last half of the ninth inning: the evening shadows were lengthening in the sun now turned orange. The first man to the bat was the inspirational leader of the CRIMSON nine, Pompous Prexy Pratt, his face fiushed in the Cadmium sun. He reached first on a walk...
...next stalwart to stride to the plate was aging, lecherous old Wilful S. Foulfellow, his eyes burning in the apricot sun. He could barely reach the plate. But he managed to lash a whistling bunt to the catcher. When the dust had died down Foulfellow stood on first, Pratt stood on second, and the henna sun stood...
...Storer Baldwin '21 of Boston was reelected treasurer, and Peter E. Pratt '40 of Charles River, director of the Alumni Records, was elected secretary...