Word: squad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Awkward Squad. Of the malcontents now awaiting trial M. Poincaré thundered: "They are a miserable awkward squad of adventurers plotting for the amputation and mutilation of France...
...represent Harvard have been selected after a series of conferences lasting ten days, and the work in these groups has been almost entirely the basis of selection. Preliminary tryouts were held previous to the conference groups as elimination contests, and the squad was cut to 12 men. C. C. Alpern '28, J. K. Fairbank '29, J. H. Harding '30, and A. L. Raffa ocC., besides Lorenzen and Swigert, also prepared the case for the negative and were named as alternates...
Though the German and British accounts are thus irreconcilable, the discrepancy grows less as the British account (and film) proceeds from the point at which Nurse Cavell stands flashing-eyed before the squad...
Next comes a sequence in which one of the German soldiers in the squad refuses to fire and is promptly shot by his officer for so refusing. At the sound.of this shot the cinema Nurse Cavell faints and is shot by a soldier as she lies unconscious...
...hair is black and kinky, his eyebrows heavy, his ears big, his eyes maroon. He can change his skin color. It is normally brown. But at times he makes it appear lighter with a chemical, at other times darker with a lotion. The Tribune's squad of man-and-news hunters have been unable to find him during five months search. He had disappeared well...