Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably 50 percent of the coaches wear again some item of clothing they had worn at a winning meet. Typical examples are Hal Ulen and Bill Brooks, who coach the varsity and freshman swimming teams respectively. Ulen restricts himself to repeating a tie, but Brooks will repeat his entire outfit...
When the Wehrmacht began to surrender, the general led the remnants of his outfit to neutral Liechtenstein. The men scattered. Pressured by the Kremlin, the tiny principality ordered the general to leave. With the help of the Russian Orthodox archbishop of Argentina, a friend of Juan Perón, he got permission to take the last of his men to Buenos Aires...
...situation was tailor-made for the Reds: all over the country, the workers, galled by remorseless price rises, were in a rebellious mood. On Rio's waterfront, dockers by the droves left the government-controlled union, went over to a militant new independent outfit; they refused to do any overtime work until the government started paying bonuses promised last December. Merchant marine officers threatened a strike that would tie up the government's two shipping lines. Even doctors at government institutions in Rio staged a one-day strike. Things were at their worst in São Paulo...
...fired 620 rounds from it), Stanley ducked into the bunker, borrowed an M-1 rifle. When reinforcements arrived at 9 a.m., there were eight dead Chinese sprawled in the mud at the corner of the trench. Stanley slithered down the hill, had his cuts treated and returned to his outfit and his Bible. "If the Lord wasn't with me, I'd never have made it," he said...
Blues on the River (Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band; Decca LP). Trumpeter Yank Lawson and Bass Fiddler Bob Haggart, onetime nerve centers of Bob Crosby's Bobcats, take their outfit on a music ride down the Mississippi (from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans) in the grand old style...