Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when it came to fist-shaking, everything was up to date in Kansas City. The Naval and Military Order of the U.S.W.V., an outfit of former officers, set the tone. Said its retiring commander, 78-year-old Patrick Ratigan: "Remember the Maine? If we were not skeptical of the Russians and everybody took a noncommittal attitude like we did with Spain . . . we'd wake up some morning and learn that we'd lost more than a boat." Cried the Order's new commander, 71-year-old J. Clark Mansfield: "Teddy Roosevelt would have rolled up his sleeves...
Small fry spat out their bubble gum and rushed to get a new bubble-blowing outfit which produces bubbles four to five feet in diameter, and with the consistency of Cellophane. One shortcoming: when punctured, the bubbles collapse with a despondent whoosh instead...
...asked the correspondents, had Pfeiffer's party not been allowed to hold a scheduled rally in front of the Parliament building? Boldizar explained that another party had somehow obtained a priority permit for the same place at the same time. What he referred to was an outfit called the Independent Hungarian Democrats, led by one Rev. Istvan Balogh-a tame "opposition" party which the Government had kept around for show-window purposes...
...your outfit have been ordered to Heaven as part of an all-out Allied Offensive against the Devil. You're going to meet a people who like Americans and whom you will like. The Angels have much in common with us; they are virtuous, peace-loving, God-fearing people, and they're out to lick the Devil...
...practiced in a bathtub-sized inlet at Annapolis called College Creek. The creek, only 400 yards long, wandered around four bends and under three bridges. Navy's crew banked around the turns, used more rudder than oars, cussed the creek, and seemed to have become a crack outfit. On the broad Hudson at the Poughkeepsie intercollegiate regatta last week, the Annapolis crew proved...