Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McClure, who is a West Pointer himself and is going with the men, said that they would attend the clash with Columbia Saturday afternoon and the dance that evening. The group will also be on hand for the weekend formations in the morning...
Said Major General Harry Vaughan (no West Pointer but a 1916 All-Missouri center at Westminster College): "I got a lot of letters from some proud mamas who wanted to know why their Johnny was being drafted and these football players were not. . . . My reply was . . . that they certainly look like draft dodgers. . . . They have spent two or three years being educated at Government expense at the academies; now, when the shooting is over, they resign...
...Pointer. In Dillon, S.C., James Bethea's bird dog wandered onto the tracks, spotted a train bearing down, belly-flopped, allowed engine and cars to whiz over him, got up, ambled away...
July 4 he got his chance. Lithuanian-born, 50-year-old Captain Harold Cobin and 23-year-old West Pointer Lieut. George Wyatt, both in their U.S. Army uniforms, decided to visit the Nazis' old concentration camp at Oranienburg in the Russian zone near Berlin. Russian officers picked them up and took them to Potsdam, where they were held and interrogated regularly for 26 days...
...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...