Word: put
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Richardson Jr., commander of the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss. What he meant was that horses could "flow"' over terrain where no truck, scout car or tank could go. He spent an evening last month expounding his doctrine of flowing horses and horsemen to visiting newspapermen, then put on his show next day. He had indeed demonstrated that modern cavalry could flow off roads, through brush and sand, over ridges and through gullies which would slow or balk any mechanized force. And horsed units, within the limits of a rough battlefield, could speedily transport an impressive array...
...incredible stupidity and conservatism of Great Britain's Imperial General Staff very nearly lost World War II before it ever began. So says Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, military theorist whose misinterpreted belief in the virtue of defensive fighting has put him under a cloud, but whose military dope is still among the best in Britain. Last week a new Liddell Hart book*; reached the U. S., and one of its chapters, called "Wasted Brains," exposes that stupidity in all its lurid details...
...knew horseflesh were put in charge of tanks, and all the brilliant experimenters with mechanization were put out of the way-one was retired, another sent to command a second-class district in India, where there were no mechanized troops, another given an anti-aircraft division...
Many parents kept their children away, some for safety's sake. But teachers told of young boys put to work hawking firewood to bolster family earnings, of girls taught to beg money on street corners. Some children simply ran wild...
...chance to steal a better sleeping space. Said one experienced moppet: "School? I got to get the seats ain't I? ... Ma goes home to do her work and sends me back to keep her place. Sometimes the women try to rush you. But they can't put it across me. I've got 'em beat...