Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual of arms, the ways of horses, impressed their officers with their "remarkable intensity and enthusiasm." Machine-gunners and artillerymen practiced firing at wheeled targets, cavorting down a winding, miniature railway...
...education. For many, lessons will be based on a new textbook, a 344-page, brown-covered book, replete with illustrations, maps, prose, all of which tell wearers of blue-corded infantry hats about new tricks they will have to learn, old tricks to be forgotten. The book : Infantry Field Manual FM 7-5. The editor: No. 1 U. S. foot soldier, hand some, white-haired Major General George Arthur Lynch...
...Observers will operate largely on their bellies, peer around the right (not left) side of trees, rocks, fence posts. Reason: Right-handed observers must be ready to shoot from their right shoulder. The Army tries to turn lefties into righties. The Lynch manual makes no provision for lefties...
When a man starts worrying about his heart, he must literally put himself in his doctor's hands. For the diagnosis of heart disease still depends as much on a doctor's manual skill as on his instruments. The doctor feels a patient's pulse, listens to the rhythm of his heartbeat, estimates his blood pressure, measures his heart through X-ray pictures, and records on a graph the electric currents which result from its contraction...
...work when he was a boy. He taught grammar and high school, worked in a steel mill, rolled coal and ashes in a power plant to buy food during his first half-year at the State University. Then he got a job running a dining hall, thankfully gave up manual labor for life. But he still worked hard, made the track team and graduated with honors, went on to three years at Harvard Law School...