Word: striping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fairy Tale. Elizabeth was only a few minutes old when a black-coated, stripe-trousered symbol of British officialdom thrust itself upon her. On April 21, 1926, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks peered anxiously into her red, squally face, went away to affirm that she had been born. Her life, not exactly woeful, has been like that ever since...
...will be on the day you be bilged. You'll get used to soft-boiled eggs, to Standard "Erl", to low passes and peanut wagons, to "arrears" of figures, Morgan 3, and Boston lasses; after all, it's only four months till the wife and the stripe...
...British invasion base, the Allied press lost a major engagement: its freedom of expression on Allied diplomatic and political policies. British stripe-trousered censorship moved in to judge what shall be sweet and what sour about Allied relations...
...tell them what you feel. Everybody else did, and now its your turn. A self-inflicted pep talk was occasionaly effective, but the Vagabond just didn't seem to obe in the mood. Lots to say, but not in the mood. On the ball, boy. You get the big stripe tomorrow, and then it will be too late. It will all be over then...
...Well, Sir," was the reply, "we want to take a bit of the yellow of the stripe and a bit of the blue of the breeches and make service ribbons for the Pershing Rifles...