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...Army announced that it was training a picked shock troop. Called Commandos (Boer for the personnel of military and semimilitary expeditions against natives), this mystery unit was being toughened by long marches on skimpy rations, being taught to read maps, get through barbed wire, navigate vessels, swim in full battle equipment, handle all sorts of weapons and explosives, even master the pressure points of jujitsu...
...would be only suicide to attempt any "good-will" invasion, for the German sir forces would know of the proposed attack, and rush more troops and planes to the scene before the British ships had hardly left their home ports. The troop landing would only provide another Dunkirk or Crete, and destroy any optimism now existing in Hitler's enemies...
...government major while he was in College, Davy will be among the 84 aspirants to a city councillor's job when Cantabrigians troop to the polls to vote under Plan E on November...
Revenging themselves for the 2-1 shellacking received at the hands of the Varsity soccer team last week, a troop of Royal British Marines returned to Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon to trounce the Crimson Varsity...
Through the portals of the imposing Colonial structure, whose red brick walls, terraced cupola, and white cornices are in harmony with the architecture of the seven Houses, daily troop a legion of athletes from fields conveniently nearby; and while their equipment is repaired and scrubbed snow-white by a privately-owned laundry, their bruises and sprains are attended by a staff of trainers and doctors who know most of the boys by their first names, and are even more familiar with their injuries...