Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrappy, finally seasoned outfit, they fought on in France. When the war ended they collected $400 for a solid-silver loving cup, which they admiringly presented to Harry Truman. Most of them went back to Kansas City and the country's Main Streets, finally to become middle-aged heroes of the best-known battery in the A.E.F. Tommy Murphy started raising a family of seven children and ended up as a paint salesman...
...boys started shooting craps in the washroom of car K2. The serious drinking went on in car K3. The boys had their wives' expectations and their reputation to live up to: after all, they had bragged as the years rolled by that they were the hell-raisingest outfit in the A.E.F. But after an hour or so the four sleeping cars became noisy with comfortable snores...
...Dizzy D. Jaunty Tommy Murphy, as much as anyone, was a typical man from old Battery D. Tommy, a sergeant in the outfit, was from Kansas City's East Side. As a kid he had gone into the fight game and become king of the amateur lightweights. He was out in Seattle in 1917, when the boys back home wrote him that they were trying to form an all-Catholic battery in the 129th Field Artillery. Tommy hurried home to join. That was the beginning of the wild outfit which earned the early nickname of the "Dizzy...
...Captain Harry was twelve minutes early. "Everyone here?" he snapped. "Where's the cook? Let's have breakfast." Grinning, a little selfconscious, they all sat down. Someone started to call him "Mr. President." Harry Truman commanded: "With this outfit I'm the captain, and that's an order...
...stand pat on his lineup for the varsity swimming team's second meet of the year against Brown in Providence at 8 p.m. tonight, but this need not be taken as a sign of overconfidence. The Bruins, undefeated after four meets, boasting a close decision over the strong Army outfit, are considered the best squad in Brown history...