Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COLOR. Radcliffe supply officers, garbed in what was once reserve blue, then on second thought dyed a deeper shade, hope to avoid billets in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts wherein the standard for the WAVES' Navy blue is kept. We are still awaiting the arrival of whites in "Palm Beach, tropical worsted, or similar material;" the present material is similar to nothing we have worn in a suit before
...then," demanded Justice Robert H. Jackson, in a dissenting opinion last week, "can the Court today hold it a 'high constitutional privilege' to go to homes, including those of devout Catholics on Palm Sunday morning, and thrust upon them literature calling their church a 'whore' and their faith a 'racket...
...atmosphere redolent of honest sweat 180 palm-powdered athletes, clothed in bathing trunks, tennis flannels, track shorts and acrobats' tights, flipped around the gymnasium of Manhattan's West Side Y.M.C.A. like desperate fish. They were top-rung U.S. gymnasts competing in one of the oldest and least publicized of national tournaments: the 58th annual amateur U.S. gymnastic championships...
...while you're in the Big Town, you may want to finish your shopping because, by May 28 ... we had the uniform story here, but the bulletin board scooped us, so that's that.... However, the office recommends cancellation of tropical worsteds, gabardine, and palm beach suits, in view of eventual adoption of slate grey uniforms for summer wear. The Coop will consider all such orders cancelled as of now, unless you hop over and reiterate your desire to keep same. It's still up to you. If you want one job different from your work suit, we suggest...
Four of the pluckiest ships in the U.S. Navy were the old four-piper destroyers which had some of their guns taken off and boilers taken out, and then were camouflaged to look like palm-fringed jungle, so that they could shuttle Marines to the Solomons in the first phases of the campaign. All four were sunk. What it felt like to be on-and later off-one of them, the Gregory, what it feels like to be sunk in any sea battle, was vividly described in the U.S. last week by Machinist's Mate George Thomas Rhodes...