Word: tans
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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...
...crutches only a few days earlier, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, 38. reappeared on the Capitol steps in Washington. At last relieved of the effects of an old World War II naval battle injury by a spinal operation last October, Jack Kennedy looked tan and hardy after five months of Florida sun shine and home care from his pretty wife Jacqueline. Nor was his convalescence wasted time : he had written a book about memorable moments in the Senate's his tory, had kept up with its current meanderings by daily browsings through the windy Congressional Record. Chuckled...
...Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato to her torch songs was Snyder's fearsome behind-the-scenes frenzies. Mostly, his uncontrolled temper was directed at Ruth's employers, and the combination of her talent and his tan trums boosted her earnings from $25 to $2,500 a week. After 17 years of his table-thumping furies, Ruth asked for a divorce. Snyder's reaction was typical: correctly suspecting that her accompanist, Myrl Alderman, was the man she really loved, Snyder shot and wounded Alderman...
Striped green and tan...
...stretch turn where other Derby fields had tangled, and twisted the odds in their rush for the rail. Swaps wasted no time. Jockey Willie Shoemaker booted him clear, and he took the lead. Nashua eased wide, as Jockey Eddie Arcaro held him off the pace. Summer Tan, too, ran with the pack. Coming around the stretch turn again, Nashua made his move. He pulled up for a split-second look at Swaps, and then Shoemaker took his mount away. Said Arcaro later: "Swoosh went Swaps." Nashua just did not have it. Swaps drove past the wire, winner by a length...