Word: shuttleworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corporal Charlie Shuttleworth is grinding his teeth with anguish over his wife ("the cow!") who "jacked me in for a civvy"; Major Maddison is exulting as his platoon-in-training comes crashing through a barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when...
...first days of Overlord, the members of the sth crash ashore in France, and death begins its steady tithing. Corporal Shuttleworth dies with a snigger: "The cow, she'll get my pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with...
...lacrosse coaching command also announced that the following Freshmen had won numerals: Beckjord, Brown, Cantwell, Clark, Coburn, Cowen, Cowles, Fortmiller, Goodhue, Graham, Hansen, Hudner (captain), McGuire, Plissner, Post, Shuttleworth, Talbot, Taylor, Thayer, Waring, Young...
...When the degree was originally offered in the fall of 1945, the Rev. William L. Shuttleworth objected because the President "likes his poker and drinks his bourbon." Last week Mr. Shuttleworth was still intransigent: "The principle involved will not die with the granting of a degree...
Incidentally, Shuttleworth is one of the two men in the Wingate outfit who wear monocles. He is a master at monocle manipulation. During a hazardous plane ride at treetop altitude and a subsequent bottle of Scotch whiskey in celebration of our safe return, the monocle remained clear-eyed and steady and was never once removed. To me this was a clear demonstration of steel nerves...