Word: regimentations
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When he was ready, John Amery shook hands with a young woman believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone to the execution chamber, where Hangman Pierrepont was waiting. With a firm step John Amery climbed the gallows...
...first seven days, prosecution witnesses were heard: Canadian soldiers who had seen the shooting of fellow prisoners, former members of Meyer's regiment, some French civilians. Much of the testimony was conflicting, some inconclusive. One star witness, Jan Jesionek, a 19-year-old Pole who had been drafted into the German Army, told a damning story...
...these fears, the Japs never discovered that the U.S. was decoding their messages. Even after the surrender, the Army still used Magic as a guide to occupation moves: though it had once been planned to send a whole army into Korea, Magic showed that a single regiment would be enough...
...face of the haggis (ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, boiled with oatmeal in a sheep's stomach bag), many a blithe spirit bolted, to watch Montreal's "social" regiment, the Black Watch, execute an eightsome reel, or dance to the music of Eddie Alexander's orchestra...
...Demobbed" from his father's old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, and unseated from Parliament at the last election, Randolph at 34 was still regarded by his friends as "promising." His latest fling was in an old Churchillian field: journalism. United Feature Syndicate had signed him to a one-year contract, sold his column to 80 papers in the U.S. and abroad, told him Europe was his beat. His first col umns were windy pieces about Eire, and under anyone else's name would hardly have been printed. When they appeared, Randolph was in Moscow...