Word: tieless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unshaven faces, dirty tieless shirts under the gray flannel, threadbare socks in the white bucks--these attested to the intensity with which the latest American expatriates were trying to emulate the native students. But somehow, the Germans' long uncut hair, their coarse black sweaters and corduroy trousers, marked them alone as the true torchbearers of the new Enlightenment...
...Minister . . . was considered unsuitable because he was the Emperor's uncle . . . [The] Vice Premier . . . shunned the ordeal. Finally, the mission was assigned to Foreign Minister Shigemitsu." He was the little Japanese who stumped into history ten years ago this week, grotesque in frock coat and topper amid the tieless suntans of MacArthur's conquerors, to sign the surrender papers and take his nation's disgrace upon his bowed shoulders. One U.S. general recalled: "The Japanese plenipotentiary had a little trouble with...
Grimy and tieless, General Manager Rudolf Bing practiced with the heavy gold curtain, nearly clipped a couple of principal singers with a fast curtain at the end of Act I. The show, he panted, would go on that night without scenery if necessary. But before curtain time, the stagehands returned, and the evening's opera, a well-tried Tannhäuser, went smoothly...
Promptly at 10, the two chief actors entered. Lieut. General William K. Harrison, the U.N. senior delegate, tieless and without decorations, sat down at a table, methodically began to sign for the U.N. with his own ten-year-old fountain pen. North Korea's starchy little Nam II, sweating profusely in his heavy tunic, his chest displaying a row of gold medals the size of tangerines, took his seat at the other table, signing for the enemy. Each man signed 18 copies of the main truce documents (six each in English, Korean, Chinese), which aides carried back & forth...
...take their chances in battle, not only to see (and correct) what is going on, but to encourage the troops. Like Patton, he believes in assiduous visits to the wounded (but not to "battle fatigue" cases). Patton always insisted that the officers around him wear neckties; now, in tieless Douglas MacArthur's area, Walker often goes without...