According to my father, a platoon is usually commanded by a lieutenant.

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Born in Germany where his father was a cobbler, Theodore (usually known as Ted) Levitt (1925-2006) emigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of ten.

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This was usually my only opportunity to change the radio channel from my father's preferred easy listening station to WOKY, a popular Milwaukee rock-n-roll station.

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At the time, some theorised that a male tiger shark kept at the zoo could have been the father - but the institution's three bonnethead females had none of the bite marks that are usually inflicted on their gender during shark sex.

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If anything, his father worked with even more enthusiasm than usual, because on Sundays he could catch the people who were usually out during the week.

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