Word: sergeanting
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...flash of TNT and the space of a second, without seeing you or being seen, blows to pieces your children, your home, your life? This week I Was a Nazi Flier claimed to tell. The book purported to be the diary of pseudonymous Gottfried Leske, flight sergeant in the Luftwaffe, who took part in the great Blitz on London, Birmingham, Coventry, is now a prisoner of war in Canada...
...Lear was a first sergeant before he was an officer, and what he had to tell the 110th's officers sizzled with first sergeant's wrath. When all the burning words had been said, Ben Lear told the convoy to move on, that it would hear from him after it got back to its home station at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, 145 miles away...
...company are within an inch of the same height (Company A's men are five feet, eleven inches and over; Company F's, five feet six and under). When the 41st was born, it had no band and wanted one badly. A Negro sergeant collected some battered drums and bugles, made them do until the regiment got a real band. Now the band leads the men of the 41st out to drill each morning, at retreat always plays hymns (The Son of God Goes Forth to War, Abide With Me, God of Our Fathers...
...lost her citizenship when her parents took her back to their former home in Norway. ∙∙ Billy Rose is taking time out from flesh spectacles, putting his aquacade profits behind a triangle play by Clifford Odets. ∙∙ Press-Agentry of the Week: In Hollywood Charlie McCarthy, honorary sergeant in the Air Corps, was ordered court-martialed for accepting a Marine appointment. In Portland, Ore., he was signed to guest-conduct the Portland Stadium Orchestra...
...first Beaufort to reach the designated bearing was piloted by a flight sergeant from flattened Coventry and navigated by a sergeant from peaceful Saskatchewan. The pair saw the streamlined Panzer ship, closely screened by one destroyer to the fore and two on each flank. The destroyers on the flanks hung close abeam-so close that putting a torpedo home would not be easy...