Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good though they may be, the Crimson must overcome two obstacles to win--the Orangemen, and the possibility of rustiness that hovers over any athletic team in early season competition. Parker's crew has been together as a unit for only three days, and they did not take their usual trip to the San Diego Classic...
Mike Faught, taking the place of injured Bobby Mellen on the man-up unit, put the Crimson back into the lead with a power-play tally, but Joe Gartland and Bitter answered to give the home-standing Eagles their first and last lead...
...peptic ulcers, and another third have gastric or emotional problems of one kind or another. While they work, the controllers gulp down antacid tablets from jars kept within easy reach. The Chicago branch of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization has sued the FAA, claiming that the O'Hare unit is understaffed, backup equipment is lacking, and training programs are ineffective...
...paymaster's office at Mechernich Airbase near Bonn, Air Force Master Sergeant Siegfried Schmidt, 33, kept track of fiscal affairs for a Luftwaffe supply battalion. A bright, conscientious bookkeeper, he logged the pay for the unit's 125 soldiers, noting promotions, with their commensurate pay increases, Christmas bonuses and, when the recruits' 15-month tours were up, their release pay. Each week Schmidt went to the bank to draw the pay for all the soldiers on the base and duly disbursed the cash...
...consistently exudes a sense of decency and honor without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral ambivalence? Moreover, we first meet him and his elite unit in Warsaw, putting themselves at risk in a vain attempt to rescue a young Jewish woman from the SS. Thus they are immediately established as gallant lads, holding nothing but contempt for deplorable national policies they have, in any case, been too busy on the Russian front to consider very deeply...