Word: warriorism
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...chief of the organization, whose name reads Doctor Thorndike on his M.D. diploma but who has never been called anything but Gus around the training room, has been treating injured Crimson athletes since 1931. When a gridiron warrior doesn't get on his feet after a play during one of the Varsity games and a tense silence hushes the anxious crowds, Gus is the business-like doctor in a long black overcoat who hurries out on the field ot examine the injury...
Kichisaburo was the son of a samurai-a warrior knight. But the father was a sickly samurai, and after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, which abolished the samurai, the family went broke. Little Kichisaburo had to be satisfied with lowly sweet potatoes instead of more expensive rice in his school lunchbox, and he earned a few coppers as a fishmonger's delivery...
...members of the Hitler Youth, the little leader-geniuses are searched for the qualities every German warrior must have : punctuality, orderliness, reliability, subordination, gregariousness, adaptability, diligence, will power, aggressiveness, acute sensory perception, practical talents. Each boy's record is tabulated, analyzed and filed away, so that his complete case his tory of character development will be available for the future use of Army psychologists...
...prospective warrior wants to be an officer he must graduate from a Gymnasium (secondary school) ; if he wants to be more than a major, he must have an engineering degree from a Technological Institute; if he wants to be a general, he must earn a doctor's degree in engineering-the hardest to get now in Germany...
...lantern roof, the central part of the Abbey directly over the crossing of the nave and transept, burned out. Tons of debris fell on the spot where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth-and many monarchs before them-were crowned. The Henry VII Chapel was damaged, but the Unknown Warrior in his tomb and the poets in their Corner were not disturbed...