Word: armband
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...generals. Next day members of the junta boarded a rebel cruiser in the Plate, agreed to surrender their authority to a government headed by General Lonardi. Before handing over the capital of Argentina to the rebels, the short-lived junta happily carried out a final operation: disarming the red-armband fascist bullyboys of Perón's Alianza Popular Nacionalista...
...brink of extinction. Then, into the mind of Captain Jessie P. Rice, a former Georgia schoolteacher and sports reporter, came the idea of the "All-States Plan," under which each state was to recruit a WAC company that would carry the state flag and wear the armband in training. Business was persuaded to help, e.g., Standard Oil Co. of Indiana sent out posters of "The Girl with the Star-Spangled Heart" instead of its old sales pitch to "Drain Old Oil Now." Enlistments rose to an average 3,000 a month...
...beard often seen among French troops. He saluted, told me that he was a French noncommissioned officer in charge of a small detachment of Vietnamese militia. Theoretically they are uniformed troops, but so far the uniform doesn't go much beyond a floppy bush hat and an armband. At another place I saw men building one of those Beau Geste forts which dot the delta. They were using salvaged bricks, mortared with mud. When the lookout tower is high enough they will face it with a thin layer of cement that will keep out water, but not much else...
...topped by a giant red star. Russian music boomed through the hall as the East Germans gaped at the huge display: freight cars, trucks, tractors, radios, precision instruments. One teen-ager caressed the leather seat of a custom-built convertible sedan, murmured ecstatically, "Wunderbar!" A man with a red armband came up behind him. "Keep moving," he snapped, "everybody must have a look...
...night in 1870 an Australian horse-owner named Walter Craig had a dream: the jockeys in the Melbourne Cup race were wearing black armbands, and leading the pack down the stretch was his own horse, a rank outsider named Nimblefoot. When Craig told about his dream, everybody got a good laugh; one bookmaker offered him odds of ?1,000 to a cigar. But it meant nothing to Owner Craig when Nimblefoot, his jockey wearing a black armband, won the big race. Owner Craig had died the day before...