Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...like Japanese women. In 1943 the Japanese placed Lysol-soaked cloths in boxes outside the huts and announced that any prisoners who failed to wipe their feet on the cloth would be beaten. Wrote Crouter: "I am rather confused over Japanese politeness and tea ceremony in comparison with the Sergeant offering to slap any woman who wouldn't dip her feet into the door box. Like us, their nature is capable of contradictions, but they could cut down on the bows when they are in the slapping phase...
...bloody seven-year civil war were still raging. In Salisbury, armored personnel carriers rolled through the streets and clusters of armed Rhodesian soldiers gathered nervously on the corners as helicopter gunships swooped low over the city. Out in the bush, at the Alpha cease-fire camp, Sergeant Roy Rowley of the Rhodesian African Rifles noted grimly: "Now I know what it's like to be waiting for the end of the world...
Many supervisors worry about small women going up against large and dangerous men. "When you're dealing with a 250-pound gorilla, I'd prefer to have some beef on my side," says Rochester, N.Y., Police Sergeant Dennis Cole. "Most women are not beefy." Still, Cole admits that women do well and that "police work is getting away from brawn anyway...
...argument in favor of women cops is that they are better than men in talking people out of violence. Says Oakland, Calif., Police Sergeant Earl Sargent: "Just as you don't have to teach a man how to fight-they grow up playing war and cowboys-in the same way, you don't have to teach a woman how to talk." That statement, like many issued by male cops these days, accepts the fact that policewomen are here to stay. Indeed, women routinely face the same dangers as men. Last fall in Oakland a drunk attacked a female...
...Sergeant Bambi Lin Finney, 22, is the first Marine ever drummed from the corps for being out of uniform. The reason was that Bambi was way out: she wasn't even wearing her dog tags when she turned up in the latest Playboy as the ranking person in an all-service picture spread on women of the armed forces. Marine brass took one look at Bambi's exposed position and decided she had been sensually infidelis; after four years and five months in the service, the Teletype technician was given an "administrative discharge" even though her enlistment...