Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woke up, looked around unsteadily, picked up his gold-braided cap, shuffled off. Seven hours later, shorn of his Marshal's uniform, he deplaned at bleak Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees...
...gags that fans like. Two samples: he doffs his cap and, with a great show of respect, uses it to dust off third base to welcome any Cub who hits a home run; if a pitcher hits a homer, he topples over backwards in a mock dead faint. The more Grimm mugs, the better his Cubs seem to play...
...WPBoss "Cap" Krug, hoping to close shop, was all for letting OWMR...
...Japs decided not to fight: not a single Zeke or Jack, Tony or Nick rose to challenge the U.S. fighters as they swooped on the airfields. It was a bombing and strafing job: 109 Jap planes were wrecked on the ground; 231 more were hit. The CAP boys over the fleet had better airmen's luck-two Jap reconnaissance planes had turned up to be shot down...
...qualify, officers must have been lieutenants senior grade for 24 to 29 months, "while their civilian contemporaries in the Army have become colonels and brigadier generals." They will be entitled to wear a neon star with blinker, and cap covers with a center rosette ringed with a one-half-inch band of phosphorescent material. Shirt collars and cuffs will be distinguished by a lacy fringe or fray and tinted a darker hue. (No pay increase is contemplated...