Word: striping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill loves fine clothes, silk underwear, cream-colored pajamas, soft linen handerkerchiefs, grey suede gloves, chimneypot hats and lounge suits with a sly pin stripe. Bit of a dandy he is, always dashing about somewhere. A year ago it was a sea trip to Newfoundland's Placentia Bay for the Atlantic Charter signing. Then two flights to Washington. Now it was the 10,000-mile trip to Egypt and Moscow. It was a relief this week to Sawyers, Churchill's pale-lashed, nimble little valet, to be back again in No. 10 Downing Street...
...Bureau of Naval Operations, to decide to settle there with his wife and three children (a daughter and two sons, the youngest now prepping for Annapolis). When his time came for flag rank he was made skipper of the old Nevada. From then on he wore the broad stripe of Admiral's rank as he settled down in the Navy's top drawer-Naval War College, operations officer to the CINCUS (Admiral A. J. Hepburn), Director of War Plans, observer in London (with the temporary rank of vice admiral...
When Asunción's Police Chief Lieut. Colonel Mishuito Villasboa fortnight ago ordered the police cadets in his school to wear arm bands identifying the countries from which they were descended, a great majority showed up sporting swastikas. Last week Police Chief Villasboa showed his own stripe. He christened a newborn son Hitler Hirohito Musito...
Although the half ended with the score still 6 to 0, Hal Tine, substitute for Cowen, put the Crimson on the road to its third victory of the season when he plunged over the Eli goal-line from the two-yard stripe to make the score 12 to 0. Fisher split the uprights to add the extra point...
...second Brown touchdown came in the same period as a Coogan pass to the Harvard 20-yard stripe set it up. From that point, Coogan moved it to the six-yard and De Angelis scored. The try for the extra point failed...