Word: troop
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Both the traditional and new will provide a colorful backdrop to the activities of Commencement week. Many of the stately rituals accompanying Thursday's exercises date to Harvard's first commencement in 1642. In accord with ancient custom, for example, a troop of scarlet-coated, mounted National Lancers will escort Gov. John A. Volpe into the Yard...
...outbreak of World War II, Davidson joined the Canadian Army, eventually becoming commander of Camp T. F. Lawrence, a guerilla warfare unit. After the war he helped rebuild a Dutch town which had been destroyed in battle, led a troop of soldiers to England where they did land work on a British farm, and finally returned to Cambridge and Harvard Law School. A member of Phi Beta Kappa. Davidson has since been engaged in an international law practice and is, at the same time, President of Technical Studies, Inc., which owns twenty-five per cent of the international channel tunnel...
From Point to Point. Harkins had long been addicted to horses, and he joined the Massachusetts National Guard when he discovered that he could get free rides in the cavalry troop. This led to diligent cramming for West Point, where he played hockey and polo and graduated a respectable 134th in his class...
Pushed from Behind. Mandel writes in this upended fashion. He tells of the mental disintegration of a U.S. mechanized cavalry troop fighting in Germany in 1944, and his soldiers are only a shade more than interchangeable war novel parts. But he describes the branching filaments of their decay with subtle force, and states clearly a proposition that most battle novels fudge: in the insane world of mud, blood and constant gunfire, the normal condition of a combat soldier must be something close to insanity...
...Troop has been fighting for four months, pushed from behind by a hearty, pistol-packing captain whose notion of boldness is to commit his men without sufficient support. So far, casualties have been light. But good luck has been strained to the breaking point. So have the men of A Troop's second platoon...