Word: braiding
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...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...
...residence, a modern house in suburban surroundings with tennis court and a golf course near by, he entertains all kinds of people at large and frequent parties. Eaker is a thoughtful host who not infrequently will pay more attention to a. U.S. lieutenant awed by the gold braid of air marshals than to the air marshals themselves...