Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Crimson racqueteers assemble for an organizational meeting on Monday, Ashley should find three returning veterans and four heldovers from last year's squad as the nucleus for a strong outfit. Murray Levin, John Hulfey, Arthur Ecker, and Jim Ware were members of last year's team, while T' rn Kissel, a 1943 letterman, and Vincent Brandt and Dick Malone, both seeded in New England court circles, are expected to hold prominent places on the squad...
Your statement concerning Yamashita [TIME, March 4], "Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit-the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur," was a terrible reflection on the millions of men who wore the fatigue uniform performing honorable duty, and a reflection on General MacArthur's judgment in ordering it that...
These plans were a far cry from Hendy's beginnings as a mining machinery company, 90 years ago. In 1940, Hendy had only 60 employes, was so shaky that Moore and the Six Companies combine bought the whole outfit for $400,000, intending to turn a quick profit by selling its machinery on the secondhand market...
...rude scaffold stood in a Philippine cane field near the old Japanese torture camp of Los Banos. In the early morning (3:02 a.m.), under the glare of three floodlights, Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit -the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur...
...London Evening News quoted the retiring Quartermaster General's delight at the civilian kit issued him on demobilization-"a suit, a raincoat, two shirts, one pair of socks, two collars, a tie and a pair of shoes." In clothes-short Britain, such an outfit would take more than a year's ration points. When hundreds of other ex-soldiers angrily asked why General Riddell-Webster got two shirts, the British War Office called it "a packing error" and sent an officer to retrieve the second shirt...