Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was their story: Russian seamen had spotted the frogman, wearing a black diving suit and flippers on his feet, at 7:30 one morning, floating between two Soviet destroyers. He stayed on the surface a minute or two. then dived under. The Russian admiral complained to the Portsmouth naval base commander, a rear admiral, who "categorically denied the possibility" of a British frogman in the area. "In actual fact," said Moscow, Crabb's secret activities have since been confirmed. The Foreign Office answer was a model of stiff-lipped embarrassment: "Commander Crabb carried out frogman tests...
...more tea?" The reply "I don't mind if I do" is definitely non-U, but "this was U about a century ago." The U speaker eats lunch in the middle of the day ("luncheon is old-fashioned U") and dinner at night. He never wears a dress-suit, and the "sentence 'Shall we wear evening dress?' would not be possible, the appropriate expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank you" is as non-U as saying ill, mirror, notepaper, radio, serviette...
...tight-fitting pressure suit made of elastic cotton-rayon knit material has been developed at Duke University for victims of low blood pressure who are in danger of keeling over when they get out of bed or stand up. It keeps blood from pooling in the abdomen and legs...
...government's monopoly suit against the International Boxing Club and Madison Square Garden, a U.S. attorney introduced a terse memorandum, penned in 1949 by the Garden's president (now board chairman), Brigadier General (ret.) John Reed Kilpatriclc. Its gist: longtime (1937-49) Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had tried to pry a tax-free $100,000 under-the-table bonus from the Garden brass for a 1949 defense of his crown (Joe retired before the fight ever materialized). The plum would not have helped Louis much. No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken...
...BOOKS), neatly assassinated by the Czech underground in 1942, has collected a $46-a-month pension from the West German government. Frau Heydrich's stipend is justified on the ground that her husband was killed in enemy action. Last week a provincial court was mulling a government suit that would end her pension...