Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another high-level suggestion: increase the enlistment bonus from the present $600 top to $1,500-$2,000. It takes about $14,600 to bring a raw recruit into one of the services and train him properly. One trained man with a bonus of $2,000, re-enlisted, theoretically puts the U.S. Government $12,600 to the good...
Imagine the boys' surprise when they found that their new horse was a white elephant! But he was a very nice young elephant, so they decided to train him. Before they could even try though, he gave one flap of his mighty white wings, and flew off into the sun, back to his seven masters...
...word of the appointment with Navarre. There were six Gestapo men in the station looking for the spymaster. But Navarre, scenting the new wind, coolly joined a long line of ticket buyers, stood on a crowded platform reading a newspaper, then joined a crowd leaving a train, and got out of the station, scot-free. Once he was saved from capture when a prolonged session in a dentist's office made him 15 minutes late for a rendezvous which the Gestapo had learned about. "Dentists," he later said wryly, "have their uses in this world...
...agreement itself rested last week in the lap of Winston Churchill's cabinet; all but one of the major issues were settled. The main terms for ending the 75-year-old dispute: 1) Britain will evacuate the canal zone but leave behind 4,000 technicians to train Egyptian replacements; 2) the base will be commanded by an Egyptian, with a Briton as chief of staff; 3) Britain will be allowed to return to the base in event of an attack on any Arab nation (not including Turkey). The single remaining point of argument: Should the British technicians stay...
...Warner) opens with a crash landing in the frozen Canadian North and closes, naturally enough, with the rescue of the survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible choirs that form...