Word: serviceman
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...serviceman will recognize Raditzer. There is one in every outfit-the sniveling, creepy little muckup who not only fails to pull his weight but manages to add it to the load carried by others. In his third novel, Author Peter Matthiessen, 33, has pinned him to the page as the prototype of the heel who arouses disgust in better men but touches off something uneasily protective in the best of them...
They finally located the culprit who has been letting the gold get out of the country -that much-maligned stereotype, the serviceman's wife...
...course, the Republicans were a bit concerned over the serviceman's ballot; they didn't make the decision until after the election...
...full-time authors started with incidental, part-time writing--is equally well illustrated in Lederer's own work, which he began on a rather relaxed basis early in his 28-year career in the Navy. The first full-length book he wrote on the part-time author, part-time serviceman plan was as a humorous description of life at sea, put together in such a way that each chapter is a complete unit, and therefore much more attractive to the eye of a magazine publisher hunting for reprint possibilities. Lederer describes this approach to writing as a concession...
...military settlements overseas, the news about dependents touched off flurries of dismay-even though the reduction is to be carried out gently and gradually, not by separating families already overseas, but by sending fewer dependents abroad in the future. Many a serviceman grumbled that he would not re-enlist if he could not have his wife and children with him overseas, and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, playing his favorite role of Big Brother to Army dissidents, made things worse by warning of plunging morale. At a U.S. military colony near Paris, an Army officer's wife looked up from...