Word: sergeanting
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...Come on, lads!" shouted the sergeant, and they charged through the gates. Twenty minutes later 70 convicts lay unconscious on the ground, with bloody, split heads. Nobody escaped, nobody was killed, 80 were injured...
Vice President Childs knew about the crackup. It occurred, he was positive, because the pilot, Staff Sergeant Gordon K. Heritage, USMC, had tried to take off before the rotor was turning at sufficient speed. The ship fell from about 30 ft., wrecking the undercarriage and breaking the rotor blades at the tips when it hit the ground. Otherwise all four blades remained intact...
...glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier's own sovereign, was once a Cossack sergeant...
...friends, towering Minister Maginot was always "The Sergeant." At the beginning of the War he gave up his seat in the Chamber and enlisted as a private. He lost a leg at Verdun, and realizing that after the War he would value the votes of thousands of poilus, refused to accept any promotion beyond a sergeant's stripes. Always immaculately dressed, formidable champion of the French militarists, Sergeant Maginot carried his sabre-rattling beyond politics. Despite his wooden leg he was an excellent fencer. France buried him last week with all the funeral honors she had bestowed on Marshal...
Infuriated, Judge Robertson called Editor Mapoles into court again, demanded to know who "Jokester" was. The editor said the name of "A. P. Harp" was signed beneath the pseudonym. No Mr. Harp was found in Hopewell. Barked the judge: "Take him and lock him up, sergeant; take him and lock him up until he produces A. P. Harp or tells who really wrote that letter?not more than 30 days...