Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady and for her read the color-blind numbers, but declined when she asked him to do it again. Upstairs there was some difficulty in the laboratory; Vag bridled a little at the fourth sign in a row saying "Have you forgotten to put your came on the bottle-cap?" and he was annoyed when he reached the doctor's office. The questions started--exactly the same as the Grant Study's had been, four years ago, Vag thought. Four years. . . "Do you like people?" What a question! Say no and they kick you out of college? "Yes," he said...
...night before Field Marshal Montgomery left, the love feast was climaxed by a Kremlin banquet at which Stalin himself kept filling the teetotaling visitor's glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...
...airport, in the harsh light of the morning after, the sable lining in Monty's new coat seemed to be merely "brown fur." Said the gallant Monty: "Anyhow, it's a beautiful coat." Wearing it and his caracul cap, taking his white coat with him, he boarded the plane. When he landed in England, he had on his beret...
Then the Gimo, his nose red in the cold, saluted and haoed. They trailed Marshall up the ramp into the plane for final words. As they emerged the Gimo almost brushed off his military cap against the hatch top; he caught it in time and came down smiling. The hatch door slammed; 49149 rolled away. As it lifted into the air, with the snow-dusted purple mountain as a backdrop, the last one to wave adieu was Ambassador Stuart...
...Haven, which saw the Elis reverse a previous 21-point defeat at the hands of the Big Red, was an indication of the important role played by Bob Gale on the Ithaca squad. Gale, larger of the two brothers on the Cornell squad, suffered a broken knee-cap against Harvard last weekend, and will be out of action for about four weeks. For the Ellis, center Tony Lavelli sparked his club's attack...