Word: three-year
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...August 1942, while I was file clerk of the 726th M.P. Battalion, Camp Beauregard, La., I handled the papers of a recruit who was grey-haired and well over 60 years of age. He had 15,988 days "bad time" (AWOL) and a year and a half unexpired term of a three-year enlistment remaining to be served...
...Army decided to allow him to finish his three-year hitch, of which about a year and a half remained. He was a good soldier when I knew him and, so far as I know, is now drawing the pension and benefits to which an honorably discharged veteran of the Spanish-American War is entitled...
...Communist newspaper Deutsche Volkszeitung; Willi Schroeder, onetime Communist deputy in the Mecklenburg provincial government, Edwin Hörnle, oldtime Communist leader and Reichstag deputy; Eugene Schiffer, 85, Liberal Democrat and once Reich Finance and Justice Minister; Dr. Wilhelm Fitzner, Social Democrat, a lawyer who had served a three-year term in a concentration camp; Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, 58, Christian Democrat, former Berlin police official and ex-head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; Helmut Lehmann, Social Democrat, freed from a concentration camp by the Russians last April...
...million-odd citizens of agricultural Paraguay have taken great pride in their Army. Trained by a French mission, it had thrashed Bolivia (pop. about 3,000,000) in the bloody three-year Chaco war beginning in 1932 had come home to barracks a triumphant fighting force. But by this week some Paraguayans were taking a different view of their soldiers: they were eating the country out of house & home...
...half-past eleven on the wintry night of Feb. 1, 1939, the Spanish Republican Government of Premier Juan Negrin assembled in the basement of an ancient castle near the snowy Pyrenees. Their three-year struggle against Franco and his Nazi-Fascist allies was broken at last; under German and Italian bombardment, a half million starving, destitute Spaniards were straggling through the mountains toward the French border...