Word: mufti
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...wearing some tweedy thing that he picked up over yonder, and the town is full of rank and importance and anyone less than a Major is practically an Okie. But they all go around pretending to be grocers, morticians. . . . The odd part of it is that . . . Army officers in mufti, as a rule, look as if they had just crossed the continent by day coach in a slow train and hadn't undressed for a week...
...southeastern Europe approached so fast last week that all but the troops involved were left behind the rush of events. It was spring-the season of German invasions of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Norway. One day the only Nazis in Bulgaria were a few scattered thousands in mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous Greek frontier which...
Balkan rumors set a deadline for the German attack. Some rumors even had German troops already in Bulgaria, in mufti...
...induction stations, been sworn into the Army of the United States, shipped to reception centres (Draftese for Army camp). Nearly 99% of the 20,000 were draftables who had volunteered for one year's training without formal drafting. At 29 reception centres rookies were shucked out of mufti, inoculated, vaccinated, shod and asked such questions as: "How many nickel cigars can you buy for 20??'' "How many dozen will 42 oranges make?", asked to say whether a pistol was a gun, a knife, a sword or a pencil...
...blockaders* The alignment of France and Spain, the former in supine collaboration, the latter with willing spirit but feeble body, would make possible an all-out attack soon on the Western Mediterranean. This week German troops were reported crossing the Pyrenees packed in trucks. Penetrators in obvious cheap mufti had long been reported in Spain. Clearly the attack...