Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called upon to fight, they thought that such basic weapons as the carbine and Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) should also be included. Much too much time--over 80 hours--is devoted at present to the M-1, especially as it was taught last summer, with boring all-day sessions spent repeating the same firing positions over and over again...
Classes on subjects like "Character Guidance" were often so unsuited for a mature group that even the teachers were embarrassed. The hours spent on practicing to march, preparing for inspections, etc., while important for instilling discipline, would not suffer from a reduction either...
...Army has handled whatever schooling given the RFA's with a high degree of competence. They receive the same training as their classmates, and their classmates, and their instructors generally have a solid knowledge of their subject matter. Most RFA's to whom I spoke said the time spent in schools was the most valuable part of their six months training. Schools which require long periods of atendance are generally not available. Of course, a shortened basic training might allow more men into these highly specialized--and hard to fill--fields...
...fled to West Berlin? To save his skin, for he feared that his superiors were going to "fry" him because one of his aides had been discovered to be a double agent, and also because a relative had recently decamped to West Germany. "I spent eight years in Nazi concentration camps," said Dombrowski candidly. "I did not want another dose...
...Producer Irving Gitlin stoutly insisted that all the voices heard on the program were authentic, that three reporters had spent three months gathering background information and one month taping the interviews. Wasn't it strange that so many people had been willing to discuss so unsavory a business? Maybed Gitlin: "Maybe it's because all these people have a sense of guilt about what they're doing." How had the CBS reporters found their sources? Gitlin: "I can't go into details...