Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
...down their massy branches ... as if the lightning smote them ... [I saw] a man bent up, with his face to the ground in the attitude of a Pagan worshipped . . . [and] I went and said to him, 'Do not lie there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned up his face with a stupid, terrified look . . . and then without a word turned his nose to the ground." Other men, mad with terror, tried to hide in a fold in the ground: over them stood Union General Gibbon, saying "in a tone...
...Hejaz turban flopping rakishly at his shoulder, was standing in the night air, five miles east of the Jordan. Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan, was watching his Arab Legion assemble. During the day, fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan's ist Mechanized Regiment had swirled and stamped, with arms interlocked, in traditional Arab war dances. With the first glimmer of dawn on the day after Israel was born, they began to wind down the road to the Jordan Valley in tanks, armored cars and trucks, slapping at mosquitoes in the heat. They crossed...
Schoolchildren got the day off. The cadet corps and the boys' band showed up from Lethbridge, and the 18th Field Regiment from Great Falls, Mont. Over a symbolic arch on the border roared U.S. and Canadian planes. The occasion was last week's opening of the new hard-surfaced highway from the border town of Coutts to Lethbridge. It was also the start of Alberta's drive for U.S. tourists. Governor General Alexander, who cut the ribbon, added that he hoped the highway "might happily serve its noble purpose...
Added to the hospitality of the Rugby Week Committee, headed by Stanley Gascoigne and Stuart Outerbridge, was that of the British Army, for the Harvard team was quartered at the Royal Army's Prospect Officers Mess while on the island. Most of the British personnel, including the famous Gloucestershire Regiment, were down at British Honduras where they were putting down a native insurrection in true Kipling style. The remaining Britishers, however, seemed quite delighted to allow the Harvard team to take over their mess facilities for breakfasts, and to have free rein around the camp. They also provided a cheering...