Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other unit commanders who wanted a morale-booster for their own men were given the privilege of staging the executions of flyers captured in their bivouac areas. On at least two occasions the livers of the executed men were served in the officers' messes while strips of flesh cut from the legs were used to flavor enlisted men's soup...
Said the Communist L'Unità soothingly of Vishinsky's gibe: "The phrase perhaps went farther than the thought...
Even transportation is a problem. Japanese cannot ride in Army vehicles without written authorization. A G.I. can still take his Japanese date walking (in non-military zones), to his unit club (on special occasions) or to approved Japanese dance halls. Any public display of affection may subject a G.I. to arrest. He is forbidden to offer a Japanese girl a U.S. cigaret, chewing gum or chocolate...
...face of this failure, the once sound rule which required all except commuting students to live in University rooms becomes an anachronism. Designed originally as an attempt to make Harvard a more cohesive unit by bringing as many students as possible within the orbit of House life and to break down the isolation and discontinuity of College life caused by the widespread practice of living in "rat-houses" in order to pay one's club dues, the rule has more than justified its intention...
...extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...