Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...models stalked back & forth Though many of the 274 designs still stressed utility, a distinct shift to the sophistication of New York and Paris was perceptible. One fetching outfit might have come straight off the floor of a Paris salon-a form-fitting dinner gown in cool grey with an austere neckline and sweeping sleeves caught in narrow cuffs...
...relative writes from Saipan: ... A few of the boys got over on the beach and watched them dump brand-new tanks, each equipped with a toolbox outfit that left nothing to be wanted, over a cliff. . . . They saw thousands of crated brand-new jeeps being burned . . . and you can't get a jeep to drive with on the island. The orders are: 'Destroy before the civilians get 'em.' They say they're doing a better job of 'burnt earth policy' than when the Japs took over. Maybe they're doing the right...
...100th Infantry Battalion won more awards than any other unit of its size: two presidential unit citations, three Legion of Merit awards, 9 D.S.C.s, 44 Silver Stars, 31 Bronze Stars, more than 1,000 Purple Hearts. This battalion and the 442nd Infantry Regiment, also a Nisei outfit, had more than 9,000 casualties, no AWOLs but six men who jumped hospital to return to the front...
...spite of these things, the outfit in China still has its pride. In a Marine station in Tientsin a young sergeant was busy at the new marine pastime of writing to Congressmen, demanding recall. Asked whether marines would stage demonstrations like G.I.s, he scoffed: "I don't believe the marines would ever do that-that's a doggie [soldier] trick...
...week's end, Hollywood buzzed with still another rumor: that Rank was completing negotiations with a minor U.S. distribution outfit to get distribution of his B pictures...