Word: trouserings
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...pitcher of brandy in the officers' mess to pour over his peaches and ice cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter's gung-ho tactics in combat off Viet Nam that really upset the junior officers...
...whom they spotted handling the dice instead of moving them with his stick, and occasionally reaching into his apron pockets between rolls. When the agents pounced, they found four pairs of mis-spotted dice in secret compartments in Gatterdam's apron; a fifth pair was in his trouser pocket...
...Lord Mayor told Chichester at the official city reception, and he might have included Sir Francis' wife in that as well. Unmoved by the fact that the reception was scheduled for the Guildhall, where formal dress is required, Lady Chichester, 65, insisted on wearing her favorite cherry-red trouser suit, forced the Lord Mayor to shift the proceedings to his own home...
...other Cambridge, meanwhile, doe-eyed, ash-blonde Ann Mallalieu, 21, daughter of a British Board of Trade minister, showed up in a black, bell-bottomed corduroy trouser suit to accept her election victory as president of the Cambridge Union, the university's 151-year-old debating society. "I think," said she, delivering the knockout, "that they voted for me as a person and not as a woman...
Three years ago in Detroit, Internal Revenue agents wired a federal parolee as a walking electronic eavesdropper. The tax men planted a transmitter in one of the man's cowboy boots and a battery in the other and ran wires up his trouser legs to a microphone-belt buckle...