Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completes his first year in Australia. Just twelve months ago, clothed in the tragic glory of Bataan, he had come down from the skies to take command of United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific. Australia would never forget the sight of him, striding confidently in his washed-khaki jacket, gold-braided cap and bamboo swagger stick, lifting Aussie hopes. His coming changed the country. His year changed...
...paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along...
Towards evening Oliver became the professor. For years he lectured on the history of medicine at the University of Maryland and at Johns Hopkins University. Most evenings, wearing a rosy boutonniere in his grey Norfolk jacket, he sat down at the head of a long dining table in Johns Hopkins' Alumni Memorial Hall. As warden of the hall he was surrounded by men ranging from freshmen to graduate students. Once when an after-dinner speaker failed to show up, Oliver pinch-hit for him, related the details of a famous murder. That set a precedent...
Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...
Several weeks after Mr. Churchill had left the destroyer, it was torpedoed and sunk. One of the few articles rescued front the wreck was the ensign, which Seaman Robert Sickle, shipmate of the Prime Minister and source of the tale, carried in his jacket...