Word: tunic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After dark, the three guards in the car relaxed. Squadron Leader von Werra opened a window, jumped out, struck westward through the woods to a highway. His facile French got him a ride from a French-Canadian who could not see the German tunic under his passenger's civilian greatcoat. Soon Franz von Werra was in Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole...
There were 17 men in the Fort who preferred death to surrender. Siqueira Campos grabbed the flag, tore it into 17 pieces. Each of the 17 pinned a strip of the flag to the breast of his tunic, and together they marched out. At the gate they were met by a man in a dark blue business suit, who said his name was Octavio Corrêa and who wanted to join the band. Siqueira Campos tore his strip of flag in two and gave half to Octavio Corr...
...eyed man in riding boots and breeches and a dark whipcord tunic looked down on the sparkling sea from a huge plane. He had finished reading his dispatches. The steward came along the cabin balancing a tray. "Tea, sir?" The man declined it. Then with a pleasant sigh the man leaned back in his seat, opened a book of Browning's poems, and lost himself...
...noting Timesman Philip's strange uniform, his blue eyes and sandy hair: "You're a dirty German parachutist!" A crowd collected, screaming imprecations. Ordered to undress, Percy Philip stripped to his under wear while soldiers inspected the soles of his boots, felt the lining of his tunic. Then a space was cleared beside the train. While a messenger went to look for gendarmes, two soldiers with cocked rifles, an old peasant with a shotgun made ready to execute him on the spot...
...Joseph Stalin is not given to oratorical pyrotechnics. Only two or three times a year does he appear on the parapet of Lenin's tomb in Red Square, wearing his flat military cap, his military tunic, his high Russian boots. He attends Party meetings but rarely public gatherings. He has made only one radio speech and is not likely to make many more. His thick Georgian accent sounds strange to Russia...