Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Langlois, Férol and Didier were privates in the same French regiment, but in different companies. They were not pals; until their fate brought them together they had never even spoken to each other. Langlois was an educated man, Didier was lower caste, Férol was the scum of the earth. Langlois rejoined the regiment, after a leave spent with his young wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line...
...boasted success vanishing, telephoned back to a supporting battery to shell the French trenches, drive the men forward. But the artillery officer refused, unless the general would put the order in writing-which he was not insane enough to do. In 35 minutes the hopeless attack was over. The regiment was ordered out of the line the same day, was put under arrest as soon as it was safely in the rear. For the regiment's alleged cowardice, the general ordered one man from each company shot...
From across the field came the heavy roll of drums, muffled under their black covers. Down the field came the glint of bayonets, the flash of many flags, and then silently over the turf came the entire army of Poland. Every general of division, every colonel of every regiment was there marching beside his regimental colors and a platoon of his own men. Set apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over...
Chairman Charles Bismark Ames of Texas Corp. grumbled about the "bungling efforts of Washington bureaucracy to regiment American industry...
Although it must be candidly admitted that it is a joke to try to regiment sociability, the removal of the exclusive tutors' table is a long and bold step in the direction of attaining the desirable intimate relationship between instructor and student...