Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attributed the grim manpower outlook to what he called the "Unhappy legacy" of a lowered birthrate during the depression years. "The cold truth of the matter," Hannah said, "is that we have been putting young men into uniform much faster than the males in our population turn 181/2 years...
Gathering dust in some Capitol Hill pigeon hole is a bill that could have prevented the Harry Dexter white fiasco, and saved the present Administration much embarrassment. Written by New York Representative Jacob Javitts, the bill would establish uniform rules for conducting investigations...
Naturally most Congressional committees have already drawn up regulations for their own conduct, but recent abuses and want of good sense and taste have shown the need for uniform authorized rules by Congress as a whole. Senate and House investigations presumably point toward some specific legislation, but with at leas three committee chairmen aiming at, and producing little but headlines, blanket restrictions are overdue...
...Amidst acclamation, he never played the hero's role. Evenings, he and his wife Paula (whom he married in Brooklyn) sat at the kitchen table eating a supper of sour cream, cheese, bread and salad. He clung to the white, open-necked shirt that is the unofficial uniform of the Israeli pioneer. Once he turned up at a Mapai meeting after a Soviet embassy reception, still clad in striped pants and morning coat, explained: "Please forgive my working clothes...
...French sea captain who has lost his master's ticket for running a merchant ship into a known minefield during World War II, and whom rumor accuses of some greater, vaguer crime. By day he haunts the shipping offices of Marseille in his greasy old captain's uniform, cringing and wheedling for another command. By night he gets roaring drunk and tries to check his conscience and his failure at the local brothel...