Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schine to halt the McCarthy investigation. He recalled that Stevens had visited Schine's apartment in New York and later had been the guest of Schine's parents at dinner. He produced a photograph of the Army Secretary posing with Schine, by then in Army uniform. Sneered Jenkins: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it a fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy ... in order to dissuade the Senator from continuing his investigation of one of your departments...
...average Briton, a U.S. soldier off duty is often a pretty overwhelming sight. Lounging on a street corner in blue jeans and a garishly patterned leather windbreaker, the hairs on his chest peeping slyly out of the deep cleavage of an open-necked sport shirt, the out-of-uniform G.I. is an equally distressing sight to more soldierly U.S. noncoms...
...John Kenneth Cannon, 62, retired Air Force general, took over as chairman of the board of Fletcher Aviation Corp., one of the largest makers of detachable wing tanks for the Air Force. One of the world's great air tacticians, "Uncle Joe" Cannon put in more time in uniform than any other Air officer (37 years), commanded the Twelfth Air Force during World War II and the U.S. Air Force in Germany during most of the Berlin airlift. He replaces Wendell S. Fletcher, who will continue to serve as corporation president...
...builder "had a right to outguess" the appraiser if he could. Instances of inadequate, matchbox construction do appear, but they are rare. There certainly was no widespread jerry-building reminiscent of the 1920's. On the credit side, FHA established a code of minimum building standards that was uniform for the whole country. But more important, it did what nobody else could do: it got the houses built when they were needed...
...whole thing steps off on the wrong trail when Howard Keel, resplendent in Mountie uniform, comes down out of the Canadian Rockies to bring Rose Marie back to civilization. Spotting Ann Blyth in a canoe and coonskin cap, he mistakes her for a boy, but then covers up with a good natured, "Hey, boy, you're a girl, heh, heh." Thereafter Keel keeps turning up, in best Mountic tradition, in the place where Rose Marie has gone, understandably, to get away from...