Today's OneWord: Influence

Lieutenant Clemington, in my opinion, held far too much influence on the corporals and privates milling about the barracks. It wasn't sexual allure, and some more chauvinistic soldiers would try to have me believe - it was difficult to make any roughhousing young woman like me trust in their more masculine thought processes. But Clemington was a different story than I was. She held an aura to her that drew in appeal. And it frightened me.