Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kutakalook was different. She was a post servant and had received a sweater as a Christmas present from Campbell. "Kutakalook was the most attractive Eskimo girl I had ever seen," he comments judiciously. "She was spotlessly clean. . . . Here, sitting on my bed, was a girl who was offering herself to me . . . in return for the sweater...
Walking PX. In Sendai, Japan, officials charged baggageless Shoji Nishimoto with illegal possession of U.S. goods when they found cached on his person: one extra pair of trousers, two shirts, one sweater, one mackinaw, one mirror, one bath towel, a complete shaving set, one Navy flashlight, twelve packs of cigarets, 28 cans, packages and bars of candy and food...
...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...caught the eye of a cabaret owner, who took her inside, made her sing in her threadbare skirt and sweater. After her first song there was a sepulchral silence. "A thousand thoughts went through my mind," she says. "Did my miserable appearance make them feel ashamed?" Then the hall broke into a long thunder of applause. Maurice Chevalier rose to his feet and cried: "Elle en a plein le ventre, la môme" ("The kid's got plenty of stuff...
Last week, wearing a bright yellow sweater and a sky-blue dress (by special permission of the Navy), Captain Mac gave a newsman a glimpse of the postwar course she plans to steer. She was full of what the WAVES had taught her. Said she: "I am more enthusiastic than ever about liberal education. I found that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that...