Word: remindful
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...should like to remind men in college that the First Service Command has announced the closing of Enlisted Reserve Corps enlistments on December 1. This is a different matter from the administrative closing of enlistments by this office on October 20. The Enlisted Reserve Corps will not be reopened this time...
...seem at all what everyone had expected: a young, heel-clicking stalwart of Hitler's "master race." That was when, needled because his attorney asked him if he had been promised immunity for testifying for the U.S., he stiffened, shot out his jaw and said haughtily: "I may remind you that you are speaking to a German soldier. The United States Government respected me by not even offering me any promises whatever. I expect the same from...
Toward evening we arrive at a glass factory. The entrance is heavily guarded. Severely examining our documents, they remind me of Red Guards in 1918. Inside we see the director, firemen, watchmen and members of the factory workers' guard. Though machine tools have been evacuated, the workshop remains; guarding it are elderly men who have given their best years to the factory...
...could. And I maintain that I did sail it. I worked like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally I was in command. I took an occasion to remind the boys that I, as captain, held absolute authority." When he tried to teach them navigation, he was not sorry that their sun-dulled minds could not absorb his lessons, "as this left the responsibility for our progress entirely in my hands...
Sculling in those days was not as pleasant as it is today, for all the pigs for miles around floated up and down on the tide a menace with which present day rowers don't have to contend. Only the odors from the Watertown slaughter house remain to remind them of those cruder days...