Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Hap Arnold sat on the redwood chairs he made himself in his woodworking shop and looked across the California valley. He wasn't exactly quiet: he wrote a book, and burst into print regularly with charges that the Air Force had been cut to "a one-punch outfit" by postwar economizers. When summoned by a congressional committee investigating charges of skulduggery in the procurement of the B-36, Arnold snapped brusquely: "Let's get this straight! You can't buy aircraft as you buy beans. I want it understood that no one man is responsible...
...younger men but were by no means ready to quit playing. Onetime New York Symphony First Trumpeter Vincent C. Buono, 74, and such 78-year-old gaffers as Violinist Fred Schaefer and Violist Solomon Pressman were enthusiastic about Gout-kin's idea of forming an old fellows' outfit. Sixty others were rounded up in no time...
Last week, before the New York State Public Service Commission, Grand Central and its captive audience met in combat. Spokesmen for the railroads defended their right to raise revenue with noise, said a poll by an outfit known as Fact Finders Inc. showed over 85% of the commuters approved, hauled out a psychiatrist who said the noise could harm nobody who was all right in the head. The whole storm of protest, complained that railroads, was started by "an adult comic book," i.e., The New Yorker magazine...