Word: tunics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rickenbacker, a flamboyant figure in pink britches, a fancy non-regulation tunic, and the shiniest British boots in the A.E.F., set an amazing pace. He kept two Spad pursuit ships, each bearing the number 1, and the famed hat-in-the-ring insigne. He landed one, gulped coffee, and took off in the other, often flew six or seven hours a day. His haggard young men followed, and celebrated their adventures with a squadron ballad...
...with the guests. It seemed as though he resented just being there. You could not tell what sort of fellow he was. He did not drink too much, and he did not abstain-a calculating toyer with a glass. Always he wore that party uniform [a drab, high-collared tunic, once affected by Stalin], which went out long ago in Russia . . ." The diplomat paused. Then, spacing his words for emphasis, he continued: "I -would -hate -to -be -at -the -mercy -of -that...
...library stacks. No one comes off worse than Major General George B. McClellan, whose reputation, even for his conduct of the disastrous Peninsular Campaign of 1862, had improved under the ministrations of recent historians. Williams makes it hard to believe that "Little Mac" was anything but a stuffed tunic, an ambitious parade-ground dandy whose timidity in combat was close kin to cowardice. In battle, Confederate generals relied on McClellan's fears just as Lincoln came to be sure of his incompetence. Writes Williams: "No blow by [Stonewall] Jackson could be quite as paralyzing as an order by McClellan...