Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with two years of high school) for enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army, Navy or Coast Guard...
...died on another trip to the Riviera, at the Hotel Idéal Séjour, Cap Martin, Jan. 28, 1939. There were many drowned sailors buried near his grave, and an obscure follower of Garibaldi beside it. To Dublin, soon, came bishoplike T. S. Eliot "to speak on one whom he called 'the greatest poet of our time-certainly the greatest in his language, and so far as I can judge, in any language...
Some time before midnight Cap. Ken McCuliar of Batesville, Miss., brought his fortress over the New Britain island base and stayed there for several hours as his mates followed him in and began blazing away...
Last week Al Schmid, Marine cap perched jauntily, stepped off a train on to the windswept Philadelphia station platform. His mother and father were there to meet him. So was Ruth Hartley. He could not see the tears in their eyes, but he heard their voices. He laughed when he felt the shape of Ruth's hat pressing against...
...that CAP planes have the 20? bombsight and the eggs snuggled up against their bellies, German sub commanders will have to dive faster and more often and fewer will escape...