Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Army still had 59 inspectors combing the post. A recruit of ten weeks flopped down on the pine needles at lunchtime and stared disgustedly at his mess kit. He had just spent the morning running through a combat-in-cities course...
...mess kit was a quarter-inch of greasy beef stew and lima beans. "If it wasn't for the food my mother sent me, I'd starve," the recruit said. "Eight lima beans. Count them, eight." The mess corporal was sorry: "I would like to give them more to eat, but there isn't enough to go around. I got to feed 15 or 20 more than my ration every...
...distinction that may not mean much to a Smith of Brooklyn or a Brown of Grand Rapids but apparently means a lot to a Madden of Connemara. "There isn't a better class of fighting man from Oughterard to Letterfrack," shrills Mrs. Colgan, the old lady who introduces Recruit Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very curt sentences, e.g., "Madden floored the bricklayer with a right...
...Cliffe commuters, after spending two extra days to get the required number of election candidates, will today begin a two-day vote for Commuter Organization officers. An incomplete slate forced Student Council Electoral Committee members to recruit more candidates Thursday and Friday...
...Communists from the Kuomintang, Liu made his way to Moscow, where he studied guerrilla tactics and Far Eastern politics at the Red Army Military Academy. When Russian troops entered Manchuria in 1929 in a dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese Red army in Kiangsi province under Mao Tse-tung. He led the vanguard of the celebrated Long March in 1934-35, which brought the Chinese Reds...