Word: rangers
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...bench against the wet canvas wall a towheaded young Ranger, his left forearm swathed in a bloody dressing made from the sleeve of his green fatigue jacket, asked with weary anxiety if anyone had seen any others of his company. Then, through the tent entrance came a 19-year-old boy. His eyes stared unseeing, he had the face of a man of 90. A chaplain gently forced him to sit down, asked his name and his outfit. The boy did not hear...
...later Padre Vélaz got word that the plane was lost. Next day the wreckage was sighted in the high Andes, 55 miles to the east. His black cassock flying, Padre Vélaz clambered aboard a special plane. By nightfall, with 15 volunteers and a hardy baqueano (ranger),the padre was climbing up the craggy trail toward the lofty Páramo de Dos Torres...
...Temperatures fell below freezing. By the time they reached the 10,000-ft. level, ten of the volunteers had dropped out. José Vélaz, with his grey head bare and a towel wound round his neck, pressed on through a whipping gale. At 12,000 ft., the ranger led him over a crest. Below lay the shattered fragments of the DC-3 and 31 bodies, the boys and their air crew...
...untrained ear the change was virtually undetectable. The Green Hornet, The Lone Ranger ("Hi-yo, Silver -awa-a-a-a-a-y!")» Soo-oo-per-ma-a-an, The Shadow, and an ear-shattering collection of other thrillers kept on blasting through millions of loudspeakers; the announcer's thrilling command-"Ask mother nOw!"-echoed louder than ever. Fancier and more complicated box-top premiums (Planetary Maps, Atomic Bomb Rings, Magni-glow Writing Rings, Detective Badges, Compass-Magnifying Glasses, Explorer's Sun Watches) came flooding through the mails...
...five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become an integral part of an infantry division: every division will have them. There will be only one thing to set them apart from other troops: they will wear the Ranger patch of World...