Word: combativeness
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...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...
...Post hoc ergo propter hoe" will be the cry this morning after the Battling Scribes of 14 Plympton Street, champions to these many years of the Inter-Journalistic Simon Pure Touch Football League, meet the lowly kittens of the Princetonian in the field of combat. All editors are requested to turn out for the game in Dave Colter's office at 10 o'clock...
...World War I, only 10% of the 404,000 Negroes drafted and enlisted for the Army saw service in overseas combat outfits. Except for a few separate regiments (like the 369th 376th 371st and 372nd). their record was undistinguished. Some Army men today think Negroes are as good fighting men as whites, but also think they will never be able to prove it until they go into action led by Negro officers, show once & for all that they do not need white leadership...
...Aircraft-engine makers in September turned out some 1,500 combat engines, 900 training-plane engines. Many of these were for export (mainly to the British). Even with automakers like Ford, Packard, Studebaker, General Motors going into the aircraft-engine business, output will be no where near enough before...
...Then there were "refugees," leaving Bessarabia when Russia moved in and taking up strategic refuge all over the Balkans. Then there were "official photographers"-22 of them recently reported in full Nazi uniform in Bulgaria. And now "instructors." In order to instruct the Rumanians in the arts of combat, the Germans were said to be sending three whole army divisions: 50,000 teachers equipped with $82,500,000 worth of war material. Rumania would learn a lesson from them which she would not soon forget. "Instructors" were also reported going into Bulgaria and Hungary to teach men how to fall...