Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before 8:30 one morning last week, an olive drab Cadillac rolled down the ramp to the underground parking lot of the Pentagon Building. Its passenger, cap set ever so slightly at a rake, stepped out, pulled down his trim, suntan Eisenhower jacket and strode toward the elevator. Pentagon workers did not need to glance at the five-star circlets on his shoulder straps to know who he was. They gave him "good morning." General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower grinned his acknowledgments, got into the elevator, was soon in his third-floor office and busy...
...Instead of the traditional cap & gown, George Marshall wore a business suit, General Omar Bradley his Army uniform. Explained Harvard's President James B. Conant: "We put no hood on those receiving degrees . . . uniforms and civilian dress are quite usual. . . . Dress is optional...
...grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
Paratrooper General. Youngish (44) General Tu, who sometimes wears a brown stocking cap at headquarters to keep his straight, black hair trained back, had his detractors. Manchurian deputies shouted in Nanking that the Communists were making headway because Tu's officers were busy dealing in opium and loafing in dance halls. But General Tu had shown great ability in beating the Communists to control of southern Manchuria 18 months ago. Now he hoped to keep it from them...
...first 41 days in the U.S., Bobby Locke had won two of the three tournaments he played in, against the Hogans, Sneads, Demarets, etc. The galleries flocked after him: he looked like a picture postcard of a St. Andrews golfer; he doffed his baggy white cap in acknowledgment when the cheers were...