Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning of this year, it was suddenly clear that all of the experiments, all of the fighting, all of the training had coalesced. The U.S. had more than jets and bombs and intrepid pilots; it had, in the U.S. Air Force, the world's most powerful modern fighting outfit...
...superior race, Gruver at first is disgusted to see American boys taking an interest in and even marrying Japanese girls with butterball shapes, burlap dresses and gold teeth. But he soon serves as best man at a Japanese-American wedding, and the groom, an airman from Gruver's outfit, drops a tantalizing hint: "G.I.s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew a big, important secret." Through the newlyweds, Lloyd meets willowy, honey-skinned Hana-ogi, who teaches him the Japanese women's big secret ("They make their men feel important...
While Exeter's squash team anxiously awaited the arrival of the Yardlings on Jan. 19, Coach Corey Wynn's outfit was practicing in Cambridge, unaware of its alleged match with Exeter...
When compared with last year's freshman outfit, which dropped only four individual matches all season, '57's team has a long way to go, but "in spirit, aggressiveness, and willingness to learn it already compares favorably with last year's group...
...when they went looking for Halperin, he was not to be found. Neighbors of the Halperins in suburban Brighton reported that they had seen the professor and his wife loading up their car at 3 a.m. Thanksgiving morning, and the two "had enough luggage in their car to outfit a large family for a year." The next thing B.U. knew, Maurice Halperin was in Mexico City...