Crossword-Solution: COLONELS
We have 17 clues for the answer “COLONELS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| EASTERN Kentucky athletic team/college athletic team | 1 answer |
| Silver eagle bearers | 1 answer |
| Ones wearing eagle insignia | 1 answer |
| North and others | 1 answer |
| Mustard and others | 1 answer |
| Mustard and Sanders | 1 answer |
| Grains, as of corn* | 1 answer |
| Eagle wearers | 1 answer |
| *People employed at the starts of battles | 1 answer |
| "Bird" officers | 1 answer |
| Captains' bosses | 2 answers |
| High-ranking army officers | 2 answers |
| Wearers of eagle insignia | 2 answers |
| Army honchos | 2 answers |
| AMERICAN athletic team | 47 answers |
| COLLEGE athletic team | 47 answers |
| AMERICAN college athletic team | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLONELS (5)
The two regiments afford a striking illustration of Napoleon's saying, "There are no such things as poor regiments,--only poor colonels." The negro regiment unquestionably calls for different treatment from that which would be accorded to white troops, just as the Indian troops of King Edward's army require different handling from that called for in the case of the King's Royal Rifles.
Each winter on his first appearance at one of these clubs, some kindly disposed old fogy is sure to present him to a circle of the members, and he finds himself indiscriminately shaking hands with Judges and Colonels.
His assistant engineers and foremen hailed him as he rode on up and down the line with good-natured cheers, and asked him when they were to get their commissions, and if it were true that they were all captains, or only colonels, as they were at home.
The beau-ideal of the English aristocracy, of course with some exceptions, is some young fellow with an imperial title, a military personage of course, for what is military is so particularly genteel, with flaming epaulets, a cocked hat and plume, a prancing charger, and a band of fellows called generals and colonels, with flaming epaulets, cocked hats and plumes, and prancing chargers vapouring behind him.
The Marquis of Hertford, Lords Derby and Cremorne, Colonels Bishopp and Wollaston, and Messrs Whitbread, Breton, &c., were evidences in the trial.'(145) (145) _The Gaming Calendar_, by Seymour Harcourt.
Quotes with COLONELS (3)
In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20 did a segment on rape in the military. By November four women came forward at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland, about a pattern of rape by drill sergeants. In 1997 the military finds three black drill sergeants to scapegoat. They were sent to prison and this left the commanding generals and colonels untouched to retire quietly. The Army appointed a pane…
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1981–2023).