10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SQUARE-BASHING»
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square-bashing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
square-bashing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, ...
_C_ “Camp Square-Bashing"—(“Camp Square-Bashing”) “Square-bashing” is
military slang for marching, drilling. In the feature film Meaning of Life, recruits
who don't want to go “marching up and down the square” are allowed to beg out
for ...
2
One Door Shuts: My Autobiography
I had very little idea as to what square bashing was. My brother John had told me
a few stories, but I assumed that that sort of stuff belonged to the Army and
wondered what square bashing had to do with being trained as a photographer
in the ...
3
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
Those things with pages very square people still occasionally read (1965).
square-bashing noun Brit, military Drill on a barrack-square. 1943–. G. BLACK
Attached to a Malay regiment, supervising weapon training and square bashing (
1975).
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
1870. square-bashing. Drill, esp. by recruits on the parade ground: C20 Army
and post-1930 RAF. (H. 81 P., at gravel-bashing.) The recruits, square-bashers, '
bash' their feet down on the square (n., 7); hence square-bashing camp, ...
5
Another Yin Oan a Wan Way Tickut: A personal diary ...
We started with P.T. and square bashing and were put through the mill with a
vengeance. By the end of the square bashing we could have mounted the guard
at Buckingham Palace and shown up the Brigade of Guards. After falling out at
the ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
square-bashing. F. squatthrust. length of wood with square ends. 2having an
outline resembling two corners of a square: his squarejaw. 2broad and solid in
shape: he was short and square. 2 denoting a unit of measurement equal to the
area ...
7
Weight for It: A Life of Lifting
8. SQUARE-BASHING. AND. TRADE. TRAINING. With there being an almost
unlimited supply of bodies into the armed forces, some of them could afford to be
very selective. Apparently, of the three branches available, the RAF got by far the
...
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The SOTCW World War I Compendium:
Mons,August. 23rd,1914. A "Square Bashing" Scenario by Nigel Clarke. After
Action Report by Rob Connolly Theyshallnot growold,aswethat are leftgrowold.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun
and ...
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The Boy From Treacle Bumstead: A Country Lad's Journey From ...
For the most part, the training consisted of square-bashing and shining boots and
marching and rifle drill and more square-bashing and polishing brass buttons
and buckles and badges and blancoing webbing and more square-bashing and
...
10
Cowden, My Home: The Story of My Life and Times in a Village ...
Chapter 14 Square Bashing “Come in Tom, What a day for the 19th of May. Real
cold and windy. It was warmer than this in January. Well let's get by the fire and
keep warm. Now, we'll start off square bashing for I know you know what that is ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SQUARE-BASHING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
square-bashing is used in the context of the following news items.
National service served me well – but I'd refuse it now
Most conscripts disliked but accepted the initial weeks of the military drill known as square-bashing. Typically they would be up at 6am, eat breakfast and clean ... «Morning Star Online, Jul 15»
La Chauve-Souris, Opéra Comique, Paris — review
... were belting in a stadium and Marc Minkowski's conducting flits between square-bashing and helter-skelter tempi that leave the cast trailing behind the beat. «Financial Times, Dec 14»
Way We Were: Memories of National Service and 'square-bashing'
In memory of legendary Sentinel journalist John Abberley, we celebrate some of his favourite pieces and finest features in this archive column. This week, John ... «Stoke Sentinel, Nov 14»
The sad but inevitable downfall of Kevin Pietersen. A tragedy in two …
But square-bashing isn't just a question of neatness for the sake of impressing the top brass; it's about forging a sense of togetherness, of unity, of discipline, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Oct 14»
National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945-1963, by Richard Vinen
Drill or square-bashing, especially in the first weeks of service, led by the formidable figure of the sergeant or sergeant major giving the orders, were ordeals for ... «Times Higher Education, Aug 14»
National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945-1963 by Richard …
For many conscripts their sense of the state was not the benign NHS but the bullying of national service square-bashing. Generally, though, national service was ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
WW1: The hidden story of soldier's mutinies, strikes and riots
Blind obedience, spit and polish and square-bashing drill were the order of the day. They comprised an excessive proportion of basic training – to the relative ... «Left Foot Forward, Aug 14»
Royal Marines Commando School, review: 'remarkably intimate'
... training offered everything that one would expect: the obsession with sheet-folding and boot-polishing, the endless press-ups, the mindless square-bashing. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
We should all salute the introduction of national service
The experience on which these young Emirati men are now about to embark, he feels, will equip them for life long after their days of square-bashing have ... «The National, Jun 14»
HMS Pinafore
... Benjamin Vivian-Jones), and full of press-ups, muscle-flexing poses, regimented square-bashing and even clumping over each other's prostrate hind-quarters ... «WhatsOnStage.com, Nov 13»
