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...March 22 issue of TIME a picture appears of Colonel Oveta Hobby. She is wearing the European Theater of Operations ribbon. Now has she been on active duty in the European Theater of Operations or not? The indiscriminate wearing of that ribbon provokes contempt among us soldiers who . . . literally sweat blood...
Three days before the strike was to begin, Daggert went to Superintendent Robert Wilson, asked him to blow the quitting horn 30 minutes early. The men & women, their overalls soggy with sweat, hurried out of the sheds into the blazing sun. Daggert climbed on top a huge buoy he had been welding, stuttered a bit, then began booming in the voice he had used to referee many a Philadelphia fight...
...long train of coaches stood in the multitracked railway yard of a staging area. Down the road came the troops, sweat glinting under their helmets, their eyes straight ahead. They had a band. When the colored contingents slapped along, the band broke into jive. The men jigged, some of them; some grinned. But nobody, black or white, laughed aloud or wisecracked...
Sport. Americans "think of football in terms of "tactics and skill more than, as we do in the case of rugger at any rate, in terms of sweat and endurance. As with football, so with dancing; they regard it from the angle of technique...
...part of our lives beginning today. Under supervision of two chief athletic specialists, Companies 1 and 2 will exercise on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Company 3 Monday and Friday at 1105, and Company 4 at 9845 on the same days. Uniform for calisthenics will be crew shirts and shorts or sweat pants...