Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began the Fall Term with a shuffle in regime when it announced that Dean Leighton was to become Master of Dudley House, and John U. Monro was to serve as Dean of the College. In the wake of this move there followed weekly mass executions before thousands gathered in Soldier's Field Stadium, which the Administration cleverly passed off under the guise of football games...
...maintain powerful civilian reserves immediately capable of effective military service in an emergency." One of the Act's provisions for building up these "powerful" reserves was through the direct enlistment of men for six months active duty followed by longer periods in the Ready Reserve. This six-month soldier is differentiated from draftee and regular Army personnel by the abbreviation, "RFA," after the law that spawned...
...carbine, the mortar, and the pistol. He marches to distant ranges where he had been driven before. He learns to use a bayonet, bivouacking for four weeks out of the eight. Two RFA's at Fort Dix, N.J. in 1957 won the Expert Infantryman's Badge, the foot soldier's most coveted award, beating out several combat veterans in the process...
Shell-Shocked? In Paris, Claude Figus was arrested for trying to fry eggs on the flame that burns at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier...
...Allan Poe was not officer material, it rendered a sound judgment. It was not only that the overage (22) cadet had been a U.S. army private, that he drank, ran up heavy debts and asserted (falsely) that Benedict Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...