Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army ROTC curriculum at the College has undergone major revision recently, but in reality there has been little change at Shannon Hall. Once a week over 150 figures in olive drab uniforms still stream over to a muddy field by the Divinity School, march around and attend classes--a few hours later to be reabsorbed into an Ivy League environment...
...with aching hearts" and "No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey...
Pelted with flowers, hailed with cheers and popping firecrackers, the new President of Latin America's biggest nation rode from Tiradentes to Catete Palace along streets guarded by cavalrymen in plumed ceremonial helmets-and also by drab, businesslike tanks, forceful reminders that Brazil was still living under a state of siege. At Catete, Acting President Nereu Ramos took off the green-and-gold sash of office and draped it across the incoming President's breast...
Last week the first of the 9,626 German war prisoners whose release was promised at the Russo-German Moscow conference reached a drab reception center in Friedland. Among them were two who claimed to have seen the Hitler finale with their own eyes. One was his old pilot, SS Major General Hans Baur, who was captured in Berlin. Baur said positively that Hitler and Eva Braun were dead. "Hitler said goodbye to me and then shot himself," Baur told newsmen. Baur did not see the Führer's body...
Last week, in a drab Young Men's Hall in Tokyo, some 3,500 Communist Party members and fellow travelers were legally gathered to review the new party program. Some in the audience were already beginning to drowse under the somniferous spell of Marxist platitudes when the chairman of the meeting suddenly barked: "We have an important announcement to make . . ." Before he could finish it, three men in light grey summer suits, Panama hats in hand, walked briskly down the aisle toward the rostrum. The crowd recognized Sanzo Nozaka, who is Japan's No. 1 Communist since...