Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining officially approved a summer and tropical uniform: "silver-tan" cotton twill Bermuda-length shorts, long socks, short-sleeved shirts, belted bush jackets and pith helmets. The new uniform will not be available in a post exchange until this fall, will not be issued to recruits until next July, and will not be worn throughout the Air Force until 1959. For the time being, no one will be allowed to wear shorts off-base. Explained an Air Force officer, "We have to get used to looking at our knees, and that's going...
...father's death, he waited on table at the University of Michigan, became a lawyer himself. In 1916 he marched off to Mexico in Pershing's expedition against Pancho Villa, later fought with General Douglas MacArthur's Rainbow Division in France. He came out with a Silver Star and a first lieutenant's silver bar. After the war he waited three years before marrying his wife Clara, a minister's daughter, because (she later explained) "the price of butter was too high" and money was short...
Smith's Mary Ellen Chase, 68, silver-thatched, silver-tongued bestselling author (Silas Crockett, Mary Peters}, whose courses in English literature have long borne, by Smith custom, the proud and simple label, "Chase," and whose domestically detailed quizzes have been immortalized by a bit of campus doggerel: "What were the colors of Pamela's socks ?/Long white jobs with classy clocks./What did Don Quixote masticate ?/Old fried pidgeon served up in state." Whether reading Pater aloud by her own fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase...
...airlines protested the deal. Only T.W.A., which stands to gain a new route through Germany, was for the agreement. Angry and scornful, the other lines called the State Department negotiators "stupid" and "inept," argued that they had been maneuvered into handing the Germans the entire Western Hemisphere on a silver platter...
With that, Bob Young lost his temper. Red-faced and angry, his silver hair ruffled, he roared: "How does the U.S. Treasury finance its transactions? It's all done on credit, but their credit is good-and it isn't any better than the credit of Murchison and Richardson." Under the deal, said Young, the two Texans agreed to pay Alleghany 4½% interest on their borrowed funds...