Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers wear an emblem on the left shoulder: insignia denoting Air Forces, Service Forces, corps, Army commands, etc. But the men who wear division patches wear them with special pride. Any patch may mark a fighting man but the division patch marks a man who has been assigned to fighting as his basic job. On the following pages are a few of the many division patches which have become symbols of American courage on battlefields around the world. The outfits mentioned here were chosen simply as a typical cross section of the U.S. divisions in this war which have gone...
forum, M.C.ed by Clifton Fadiman, which gives civilian listeners a straight-from-the-shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even...
Monty let them sit, another ten minutes, while he dressed for the occasion. He donned a freshly pressed battle jacket, with the marshal's baton woven on the shoulder tabs. A tiny gold watch chain stretched from pocket to pocket, under his decoration ribbons. The familiar black beret was at the usual jaunty angle. Monty strolled slowly to the tent where the Germans waited. As he passed the assembled war correspondents he said softly: "This is a very big moment...
...Inferno. We went into one barracks after another. So many men were sick and possibly dying of starvation and beatings that they merely lay or leaned or sat shoulder to shoulder, too weak to do more than grin glassily. It was here that we even found some Hindus...
Suddenly Albert Stark's truck struck a soft shoulder, slithered 175 feet off the road and hit a telephone pole. Down came the pole, and the wires snapped. Everywhere east of Denver, San Francisco...