Word: subaltern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached the stage when no one in authority dare say 'carry on' if a meteorologist says it is going to rain?" Brigade HQ countered apologetically: "There were storms-there was a cloudburst over Clapham Junction [four miles away]." Britons felt cheated. Blimped the father of one subaltern: "Dammit, the Guards never run-nor do their uniforms...
...studied at the University of California, was ambassador to the U.S.) to know something about getting the foreign help that Ecuador desperately needs. If the court decides for Flor-well, Plaza might win anyhow. "If they try to deprive us of victory by such means," threatened a Plaza subaltern, "blood will flow...
...diary: "Went ashore at Port Said." He received a stern classical schooling at Winchester (the twelfth of his line to go there), proceeded comfortably through Sandhurst, then, like his father before him, joined the Black Watch Regiment, in which he was a kilted second lieutenant. As a subaltern he saw the tail-end of the Boer War. Later Wavell returned to India for a spell of soldiering, pigsticking, horse racing, and Kiplingesque social doings at Peshawar...
...nuisance, isn't it?"). Wrote the doctor in his diary: "He looked old and troubled. For a quarter of a century he had been a soldier preparing no doubt for the real thing. It had come and this was the end." ¶A young subaltern with "dark eyes under long lashes, a pink and white complexion" was sent to Moran for "vetting." "He made every possible excuse to put off my examination . . . but [his commanding officer] told him to get a move on. When the lad stripped, we found he was wearing a coat of mail under his vest...
Princess Elizabeth was commissioned an honorary second subaltern in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service-Britain's WAC), started full-time training in southern England...