Word: traditionalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important objects of the campaign is the recruiting of service men's wives, sweethearts and friends Men in the armed forces are traditionalist wary of letting their female friends join up. There fears range from worried over the constitutional damage that Navy discipline might wreak on their frail little loved ones to fixations about the girls treatment in the hands of fiendish...
...right to reorganize the army: i.e., the right to place younger, less traditionalist officers in command posts, to dismiss all ranking officers who earned the reputation of collaborationist...
Greatest of these is unquestionably Ocarinist Bernie Ladd, who manufactures his own carefully tuned instruments and plays solos with Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Like most serious musicians, Ocarinist Ladd is a stanch traditionalist and prefers mud to plastic. He regards the U.S. Army's new unbreakable ocarinas as newfangled gadgets unworthy of a master's breath...
...cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes his words walk a tightrope of perfect succinctness, Nash makes his walk a slack rope of complete long-windedness...
...only certain thing about war . . . is change. The innovator and the radical may be mistaken part of the time-but the traditionalist is certain to be wrong all of the time. The traditionalist is right in insisting on the permanence of certain elements. . . . But he is merely a fool when he resists experimentation with new weapons and adoption of new tactics...