Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minh sent a golden opium set to the Chinese Nationalist commander and persuaded him that the Viet Minh was the right outfit to keep check on the French. "I love France and French soldiers. You are welcome. You are all heroes," Ho Chi Minh later declared, and the French decided that Ho was a useful man to watch the Chinese. "Americans are the liberators of the free world," Ho cried out, bidding for U.S. moral support, and OSS officers mingled convivially with the Viet Minh as Ho turned to more serious problems. Serious Problem No. 1 was the Nationalist element...
...left after one semester to enlist in the Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks and 60,000 broilers each year...
Brasshat Without Brass. In 1944 the fading Goring relieved his fighter chief. In 1945, Galland wangled command of an elite ME 262 outfit known, because of the pack of aces he collected for it, as the "Squadron of Experts." The big picture thereupon dissolved to the gun-sight view. With the oldtime exhilaration, ex-Brasshat Galland blew up two U.S. Marauders. Then "a hail of fire enveloped me. A Mustang had caught me napping. A sharp rap hit my right knee. The instrument panel . . . was shattered. The right engine was also hit. Its metal covering worked loose . . . and was partly...
...when they are on him (his companions once brought along a wired blanket and gave him a tooth-tingling shock when he sat on it). At a party after he became president of General Motors, everyone thought it a great idea to present him with a chef's outfit to kid the boss-the small-town boy who made good-about one of his early jobs...
...fire than that. I can't be more eloquent in what I have to say about this opposition than what has just been done here on this platform. It was aimed at me, and it's all right, because it came by indirection from Tammany Hall, the outfit that's running this campaign on the Democratic side. And don't you think for one minute that as I progress in this campaign that I will hesitate to take off the gloves and take them on, because I can battle...