Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs left, the townsfolk returned. Of Yukiang nothing remained but desolation. In the streets, outside burned and wrecked buildings, lay dead bodies, bearing evidence of frightful tortures. Bishop Quinn looked for Father Verdini. In the rear of the priests' compound he found his sun helmet, a muddied jacket, human bones...
...find that wearing the prescribed summer uniform means breaking regulations. It says here distinctly that the short sleeve shall extend two thirds of the way from elbow to wrist. As for the suits, the primary rule is that the skirt should be of the same material as the jacket and MATCHING IN COLOR. Radcliffe supply officers, garbed in what was once reserve blue, then on second thought dyed a deeper shade, hope to avoid billets in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts wherein the standard for the WAVES' Navy blue is kept. We are still awaiting the arrival of whites...
...free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...
Acute directorial touch: a saboteur, who has wrecked a food train, comes home for dinner; when he takes off his jacket, he reveals a slight, honest detail rarely seen in U.S. movies: the stain of underarm sweat on his shirt sleeves...
...every home meet, Bill is the MC, and his customary shyness must be disspelled for the moment as he announces to an adoring throng that Geoligan won the 50 yard dog paddle in exactly six seconds flat. For the Eastern intercollegiates last weekend, Gentry added a dapper white jacket to his costime. It had that certain touch...