Word: tieless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prophet. When four years ago MacArthur stood, tieless and ramrod straight, on the veranda deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, accepting Japan's surrender from a group of uniformed and frock-coated little men, neither he nor his nation realized that...
Quiet, Please. That night none of the royal family bothered to dress for dinner. They all ate a cold snack in the palace sitting room, and during the long wait that followed, Philip paced up & down in an old pair of flannels and tieless shirt...
When he walked into the crowded hall where Israel's Council of State met, everybody rose and applauded. Premier Ben-Gurion, in tieless sport shirt, pointedly remained seated. The Promised Land which Weizmann had been spared to see was in a sense not his; the tough men-some in army khaki, some in black rabbinical hats-had little patience with the old man who still talked about "the traditional friendship between the Jewish people and Britain...
Picking Up $120,000. With that performance, Rocky got his foot in the door. Three days later, at Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan, a battery of publicity men escorted tieless Rocky into a room filled with cold cuts and sports reporters. He and ex-Middleweight Champion Tony Zale signed a contract to fight for the title on June 9 in Newark's Ruppert Stadium, Rocky's guarantee...
...Major came back and with him was a stubby little man in dusty trousers and a tieless blue shirt, whom the others called "The Chief." His name, as I later found out, was Morozov-a common Russian name. When his questions got completely political, I told him: "I must insist that you arrest me, and then after seeing the American consul, I will perhaps answer such questions, not now. Furthermore, if I am detained long, it might look to some as though the authorities in Poznan were afraid to allow foreign correspondents to watch the referendum...