Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haste. MacArthur himself last week changed to summer uniform-a cherished one he had worn on Corregidor and on his arrival at Atsugi airdrome, in the late summer of 1945, to take over the defeated country. He talked or worked in his office with his shirt collar unbuttoned, applying innumerable matches to one or another of his 17 pipes...
...story of his having no dark suit spread fast. Most other Italians had only two suits themselves: one to wear to their jobs; one to putter in. "He's one of us," said a white-collar worker as Romans turned out for the Inauguration Day holiday. Added a woman in a blue apron: "He was never one to take the State's money. He saved the lira. He deserves not to pay rent for seven years...
...looked healthily pink. As usual, his tie was knotted at half mast on his high, stiff collar. Ramrod straight, he stood 6 ft. 1 in. and shook hands with a lumberjack's grip. Being in the upper division again after all these years looked like...
...high-collar areas of Boston, Frederic C. Dumaine flaunted an open-shirt background, cussed a blue streak, and walked with a bearlike roll. But by many a shrewd and ruthless financial coup, he climbed to the top of Boston's moneyed oligarchy, bossed the Amoskeag textile mills, once the world's biggest. Last week, at 82, shaggy-browed, alert Frederic Dumaine was in the midst of the biggest coup of his career...
...Awakening. Many an M.P. missed the point in St. Laurent's words, as decorous as his dark suit and starched collar. Standing at Prime Minister King's elbow, he followed his prepared text closely through heavy, horn-rimmed glasses. Occasionally he emphasized a point with a characteristic twist of his head to the right. As he droned on for 87 minutes, M.P.s dozed (one Liberal backbencher had to be awakened by a messenger), or padded out to the lobbies for a smoke...