Word: shucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...32nd's soldiers came to know him as a general who liked to shuck his shirt when the sun was hot, as a kidder who seldom seemed worried. But they also knew him as a rawhiding commander who knew no friends. He fired officers right & left. He also took heavy casualties...
...allowances for dependents. They will be under military discipline, including court-martial. They can also write "free" on their letters. WAC officers will rate with male opposite members; a first lieutenant will be called just that, not "second officer." The Corps will be a pedigreed part of the Army, shuck off the stepsister status of auxiliaries...
They Like the Life, There is no spit & polish for men on a sub. At sea the bluejackets wear what they please, usually dungarees, sometimes only skivies and sandals. Officers shuck their neckties and open their shirt collars. Everybody smokes almost everywhere. There is an old-shoe ease about the whole ship's company, but there is no infringement of dignity or discipline...
When Lieut. General Mark Clark was on his secret pre-invasion mission to North Africa, as is well known, he lost his pants. The small boat that was taking him off the shore capsized. The General had to shuck his trousers, which were weighted with $18,000 in gold, and swim ashore...
...Dukhobors are a Russian religious sect best known for their tendency to shuck off their clothes and parade naked through startled towns on the Canadian prairies. Less readily do Dukhobors shed the cloak of secrecy and deception in which they have hidden their affairs from a world they fervently mistrust. In Slava Bohu, Canadian Journalist J. F. C. Wright strips them down for good...