Word: closely
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tommy Holcomb's Corps musters close to 40,000, includes a small, well-integrated army (the Fleet Marine Force) equipped with tanks, airplanes, machine guns, artillery. But in Holcomb's day, as in Burrows', the Marines still insist on restoring Politeness...
...mold "boots" (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work on a rigid regimen; close order drill, combat exercises, firing on the range that goes with every Marine camp, endless heckling by N. C. O.s until the recruits learn to keep their eyes front, their chins in, their chests out. (Because in early days Marines wore high leather stocks that kept their heads up, sailors nicknamed them "leathernecks.") To mold a boot into the traditions of the Corps, to fire him with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting...
...planes. The Colombian Navy was reorganized in 1934 by retired British officers, now is advised by a U. S. mission, as is the Army. The Navy consists of two new destroyers, three gunboats, three coast-patrol vessels, twelve river gunboats, two transports. Not on the Caribbean, but close enough to the Panama Canal to be important, is Ecuador, with a small Army of 7,500, a potential war strength of 48,000. An Italian military mission, which had been instructing the Ecuadorian Army for 15 years, was sent home after Italy entered the war last summer...
...midnight New York was coming in fast and close, but Franklin Roosevelt, with all other big States...
...little sleep might be lost over the lack of scoring punch in the forward line, too. Almost all the booters' victories have been too close for much comfort. Look at the record: they beat Massachusetts State by one lone penalty kick, and ended with only a one point margin in their 4 to 3 win over Williams. In that 1 to 1 tie with Darmouth the boys threatened the Big Green nets enough, but that certain something that would have broken the deadlock was lacking. Yet it must be remembered that there are two efficient Sophomores, Herky Herskovits and Jack...