Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...
...Clark would soon take over his new post as Allied military commander in Italy. When he did he would probably reshuffle his staff, probably put into the line Italian troops now nearing the end of their training. But even Clark could not change the Italian theater's sad-sack military role: to keep the pressure on the Nazis with the troops available, while reinforcements went to the western front. For the troops available it would continue to be a hard, dangerous, uncomfortable winter...
During room inspection the other day, the inspecting officer was about to mark Randy Phillips down for not making his sack. "The Ghost"saved the day by speaking a helpless word while lost in the white of his sheets. "No more of this," said the inspecting officer, and now Phillips sleeps between two raincoats for contrast...
Sergeant George Baker's "Sad Sack" is a hilarious caricature. But Sergeant Bill Mauldin's weary, grimy, unshaven "Joe," the "Old Bill" of World War II, is by G.I. testimony grimly true to life. Quiet, babyfaced, 23-year-old Cartoonist Mauldin can draw the infantryman truthfully because he has been one himself since he was 18. He has fought and drawn his way through the campaign in Sicily, wears the Purple Heart for wounds received in Italy. "Joe" is beside, behind and ahead of him right now on the southern front in France...
...field, Franklin Roosevelt's Packard drove up a ramp. The President dismounted, stepped a few feet to a speaker's stand. It began to pour. The President took off his grey fedora, let the Navy cape drop from his shoulders. Standing in the rain in his grey sack suit, he spoke for five minutes. Said he: Bob Wagner "deserves well of mankind...