Word: sergeanting
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White and shaken, the young lieutenant picked himself up and examined his peaked campaign hat on the ground. The shot had torn it clean off his head. Even the tough top sergeant was moved. Said he: "With the lieutenant's kind permission, may I remark that the rest of the lieutenant's life is now on velvet...
...Sergeant Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, baseball topnotcher ($55,000 a year), just discharged from the Army as an overage draftee, dropped his baseball plans to re-enter the service...
...Dallas, 2,500 people sat in the Majestic Theater at 1:57 when Sergeant York ended and the news of the Japanese declaration of war was announced. There was a pause, a pinpoint of silence, a prolonged sigh, then thundering applause. A steelworker said: "We'll stamp their front teeth...
...Sergeant Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, pushing 31, got his Army discharge as an overage draftee, hoped to rejoin the Tigers in the outfield...
...World War I, Paul Butin wore the eagles of a colonel on his shoulders, but when he stood his last review his sleeves were crosshatched with a sergeant's chevrons. In one of the Regular Army's most irregular careers, he had left the service for physical disability after the war, rehabilitated himself, enlisted as a private. By last week, after twelve years' enlisted service, he was a 60-year-old sergeant, ready to retire. Said he, after a parade in his honor: "I wish I was 30 years younger and starting this all over again...