Word: barracks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cannot agree to reduce our period of military training much, owing to the varying character of our troops. Some of them require much training. Our mountaineers with hairy ears at first refuse to wear soldiers' boots and our fishermen cannot soon learn to sleep in iron barrack bedsteads because the steel springs tickle them. Therefore Japan cannot accept the amendment proposed...
...Well, if I may?" said once omnipotent Dr. Irigoyen humbly and, as the officer nodded, he put on his hat. On certificate of the garrison physician that he really had pneumonia, El Hombre went not to jail but into a barrack bed. Pen and paper were brought. Feebly but without hesitation the sick man wrote his resignation...
...huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then ragged troops who were battling for the life of the Red State...