Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with weary anxiety if anyone had seen any others of his company. Then, through the tent entrance came a 19-year-old boy. His eyes stared unseeing, he had the face of a man of 90. A chaplain gently forced him to sit down, asked his name and his outfit. The boy did not hear...
...inflation ate up their original pay rises, the workers turned again to the Peróns for help. Last November, the railway union, a much-favored Peronista outfit, demanded new increases. They were stalled off. Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started. The official press charged that the strikers were Reds. "We're not Communists," shouted pickets. "We're hungry Peronistas...
...even the old pros admitted that the kids put on quite a show. Before the competition began, the Hardin-Simmons College cowboy band came whooping into the Coliseum, followed by the Apache Belles, a 34-girl marching and dancing group from Tyler Junior College, dressed in abbreviated white satin outfits and Indian headdress. Down behind the riding chutes, the college cowboys carefully checked over their equipment-from the slick "piggin strings" (for tying calves) to the larger pieces of "rigging" (saddles, boots, chaps) that cost the more sharply dressed competitors more than $600 an outfit...
Other U.S. airmen joined the outfit, and the South Koreans soon learned to fly their Mustangs. Hess found them keen, aggressive, but too tense. He relaxed them by various pranks in the air, such as dangling a lazy leg out of his cockpit and staging mock pistol duels with his wingman. Meanwhile, he was out daily in assaults on the enemy for the U.S. 25th Infantry Division which called him a "one-man air force" and gave him the Army's Silver Star...
Last week Lieut. Colonel Hess (220 missions in the Korean war) and his outfit were honored by President Syngman Rhee and General Kim Chung Yul, commander of the South Korean air force. Rhee gave them a presidential unit citation, and Hess was personally awarded an ox-traditional Korean prize for champion archers and fencers. The prize drew amiable jeers from Hess's compatriots. "Hey, colonel," yelled a tousle-headed pilot from Illinois, "all you need now is half an acre of land and you can settle down here for life...