Word: braiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here I am, a dishevelled liberal arts student racing up to register before 4 o'clock, with a bottle of booze in my bag, when I bumps into this guy. He's got a flashy blue uniform on, and loads of gold braid, so I pick myself up and snap to attention, who knows, it might be an admiral. Only it's not an admiral, it's Al Roach, the Yard Cop. "They're mobilizing us," he says. "Gave us uniforms for the first time in 308 years. Don't ask me why, maybe it's protective concealment with...
...Gold braid stirred in the corner, where sat representatives of the Southeast Asia Command. "Uncle Joe's" keen eyes opened wide, flashed a danger signal. He said: "China's been blockaded for some time. Reopening communications will help China considerably. Our units there have done the impossible, something that many people here felt couldn't be done...
Roosevelt and his party arrived first, and in a few moments the reception room was jingling with the clink of glasses and gold braid. Stalin and party arrived five minutes early-precisely enough time for one drink...
Among the gold-braid dignitaries was the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold; among the gold-plated stars: Bob Hope. Then next day the soldier-performers began a house-to-house buttonholing, doorbell-ringing campaign to round up more Boeing recruits...
...Polo. At New Delhi the plane circled down, taxied to a hangar's shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers he stepped gingerly, grasping each hand with a toothsome smile, letting each go with...