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One must not be like the half-wit described by Col. George F. Baltzell to his trainees during World War I. Joe had attached himself to the Confederate command of the Col.nel's father, whose last chore before turning in was to post the boy.
The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 United States. Dept. of Defense
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Girard had a talk with Col. Lyon and Mr.O. K. Davis, and it was understood that the captain would be with the Col.nel during the whole time he was in Milwaukee, and it was understood that he was in charge of the Col.nel's person.
The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey
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Throwing my arm about the Col.nel's waist, I asked him if he had been hit, and after Col. Roosevelt saying in an aside, "He pinked me, Harry," called out to those who were wildly tearing at the would-be assassin:
The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey
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Last night Col. Morrison and I slept at a French Col.nel's headquarters near by, and in the night our room was filled up with wounded.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 1895
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Perhaps it is unnecessary to say to the reader that Senator Dilworthy had not stayed with Col. Sellers while he was in Hawkeye; this visit to his house being only one of the Col.nel's hallucinations -- one of those instant creations of his fertile fancy, which were always flashing into his brain and out of his mouth in the course of any conversation and without interrupting the flow of it.
The Gilded Age, Part 3. Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Perhaps it is unnecessary to say to the reader that Senator Dilworthy had not stayed with Col. Sellers while he was in Hawkeye; this visit to his house being only one of the Col.nel's hallucinations -- one of those instant creations of his fertile fancy, which were always flashing into his brain and out of his mouth in the course of any conversation and without interrupting the flow of it.
The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Wed, nel's affair: cappucino at about 3 pm with skim milk, topped up with cinnamon, cause I love it ... 14 g of carbs ... the chocolate came home!
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Wed, nel's affair: cappucino at about 3 pm with skim milk, topped up with cinnamon, cause I love it ... 14 g of carbs ... the chocolate came home!
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Wed, nel's affair: cappucino at about 3 pm with skim milk, topped up with cinnamon, cause I love it ... 14 g of carbs ... the chocolate came home!
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Col.nel's Visit To Pakistan Officer Aims to Cut Tension ARANDU, Pakistan -- One morning last week, U.S. Army Lt.Col. Chris Kolenda walked out of Afghanistan, crossed into Pakistan's rough-and-tumble North West Frontier Province and had tea with his counterpart from the Pakistani army.
Soldiers' Tea Date 2008
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