Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk commander, the Chief of Staff has made three trips to Viet Nam, plans to return there to share Christmas dinner with men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
...Lorelei-land, he returned to East Berlin. His brother tried to understand. "Christian obviously stood in conflict between his loyalty to the company he loved and his desire to quit East Germany," he said. "I recall a similar experience. In 1945 I was cut off from my armored outfit behind American lines, and be cause I hated the idea of leaving my outfit in the lurch, crawled back through the lines-even though I knew I could easily have given myself up. Today I know I was an idiot, and Christian may have come to the same realization...
...would do the final oil painting from life. Ceiling zero, visibility less than 100 yards, torrential rains. Nevertheless, the travelers negotiated a ride aboard an Army Caribou. Back on location, Koerner set up his easel on the exposed hill occupied by the 1st Battalion of the 7th Division, an outfit that would soon be in action. Mused Koerner later: "You think that war brutalizes people, but the soldiers were so kind to each other...
...then possible for a resident to gain admission to the bar without an examination. Morrissey, then 23, had already dropped out of law school in Massachusetts, had a try at the bar exam nonetheless, and failed it. In Athens, Morrissey obtained a Georgia diploma from a two-man outfit, now defunct, called the Southern Law School. Jenner called it a "diploma mill." Armed with this credential and testimonials from both of his teachers, Morrissey was admitted to practice before superior court in Clarke County on Sept. 7, 1933. The next day he went to Atlanta, where he won admittance...
Kulcu's Hip-Huggers. At the cheap end of the spectrum is Manhattan's Kuku shop, which opened last month especially to ride herd on the new four-footed fad. For $390, Kuku will part with a harebrained outfit consisting of rabbit hip-huggers in black-and-white checks, topped with a rabbit halter and black-and-white striped jacket. For slightly more, a girl can pick up a striking Indian-kid coat that is shaped like a sailor's pea jacket, or an imitation-cheetah walking suit made of calfskin...