Word: regimentations
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...suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit brood (two brothers, two sisters) awake half the night. The weapon father Streit used was a history of the 83rd Regiment in the Civil War, which Clarence had been reading...
...effort-at least not until Wilson had made it clear how he was going to conduct the war. The label "pacifist" was pinned on him. But he was one of the first on the campus to volunteer, and he went to France with the 18th Engineers Railway Regiment...
Miss Hahn has always written direct, and sometimes excessively frank accounts of the whole substance of her globe-ranging life; Miss Burney produced her first novel while living quietly at home with father. Shy, mousy Fanny was, in fact, the pioneer of the monstrous regiment of sentimental domestic novels written for ladies, by ladies, and about ladies & gentlemen-the sort of novel that melts in the mind the way home-made fudge melts in the mouth...
...Ataman (Chief) Alexander Dutov. At 18, Georgy Malenkov joined the party, was assigned as politruk, i.e., political commissar, to a Red army battalion. He was an effective indoctrinator, kept a keen check on the loyalty of his men. Within three years he moved up to be commissar for a regiment, then for a brigade, and finally for the whole "Eastern and Turkestan Fronts...
Shortly after World War I began, Clement Attlee volunteered, fought in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and France with the South Lancashire Regiment and Tank Corps, returned home four years later with a major's crowns, a D.S.O. and the scars of two severe wounds. He went back to Limehouse, and Charles Griffiths, his old army batman, went with him. Despite incessant attacks of dysentery, which Attlee had picked up during the war, he worked all day and many a night as well, speaking at meetings, getting the lads of Limehouse out of trouble and lending his kind, mild counsel to anyone...