Word: sergeanting
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...Time crawled. At last, desperately, Vice President Wallace called the Senate to order and recognized Senator McKellar, who rose to bring up an appropriations bill. Senator McKellar neatly yielded to Senator Taft. Senator Taft fielded the yield, tossed the ball swiftly to Senator Thomas of Utah. Then the Senate Sergeant at Arms, ex-Senator Wall Doxey of Mississippi, and Assistant Sergeant at Arms William Moseley Miller of the House stepped forward to inform President Barclay that the House was awaiting him. The President and his entourage left the chamber. An audible sigh followed them. Henry Wallace, red-faced but relieved...
Army Life. Suing her Army sergeant husband for divorce in Miami, Lieut. Betty Rachford La Macchia, an Army nurse, charged that he was cruel to her because he was jealous of her rank...
...sergeant was in a spot. It would be dangerous to confess that he lacked power to deal for his country. It would be downright disastrous to try to explain the U.S. State Department to the chief. So the sergeant wrote this protocol...
Treaty In Verse. U.S. troops have got along well with the Nagas, mainly through good nature and quick thinking. There was the case of Sergeant X, in charge of a remote post, who was suddenly confronted by a powerful chieftain demanding nothing less than a formal treaty guaranteeing that the Americans would not settle in Nagaland but return home...
...Capitol from top to bottom. They reconnoitered the roof, poked their flashlights around the paper-littered attics over the House chamber, peered under every seat in the chamber itself, combed the cloakrooms, including telephone booths, explored the Speaker's office, the Appropriations Committee rooms, the restaurant, the Sergeant at Arms' office and the Speaker's private hideout, neglected not even the men's and women's toilets...