Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stationed near the Tongan capital, Nukualofa, during the war. My artillery outfit was part of a task force consisting of Naval and Army units . . . and your fine account revived many pleasant memories...
...Nothing Is Impossible." Dressed in his usual informal outfit-a native sport shirt and pants-sweating freely from the sun and a nagging attack of flu, Magsaysay stood cheerfully waving to friends and saluting the colors as a 40-minute long parade of helmeted Korean veterans, smartly stepping bands and lumbering Sherman tanks filed by. When the last vehicle had passed, Magsaysay waved the cops aside and the delirious crowd surged forward to engulf the presidential reviewing stand. The photographers' platform swayed like a ship at sea and two cameramen fell off, a microphone stand was trampled into...
...soon the musical extravagances of bop began to wear thin. Some of its innovations, e.g., more advanced harmonies and trickier rhythms, were absorbed into the jazz idiom as a whole. Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land...
Hedgehopping and jeeping around Korea on his third straight Christmas tour there, tireless Francis Cardinal Spellman, 64, went from outfit to outfit, held services, shook hands with troops of many faiths. Speaking to some 800 men of one regiment, the cardinal said: "American soldiers have taught me better than I could have learned in any other way what America means...
...autobiography, Grandma gives a memorable description of her wedding outfit : "A going-away costume of a very dark green dress, and jacket the same, a hat, the same, trimmed with a pink feather. The first thing I had on was a chemise, then my corsets, a corset waist, a pair of pantsies, a little flannel skirt, the bustle, a white skirt, then the dress. The dress was made with a skirt lining and wigging stitched on up to the knees, and the dress cloth went over that, a long skirt reaching to the floor. Then an overskirt over that, that...