Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Farida |, ordered his wife out of the room and switched off the light. I was quite terrified. If I slapped his face, I knew it might cause all sorts of international complications. So I just stood up and said, 'That very big man outside in the naval uniform is my husband, and I love him very much.' Farouk simply 1'aughed, turned on the light and walked...
Woman-to-Woman Talk. By August 1950, Eva was well enough to start at the Richard Fairclough Secondary Modern School. She wore the standard school uniform: navy blue gym slip and white blouse. That fall, Eva's knees felt cold: she said she was getting the aches again. By November, she was in bed, and her legs were so painful that her father had to build a wire cage so that the blankets would not lie across them...
...They're easy to spot the first day. The boys wear pistol pants and a lot of them have colored jackets with their gang names on the back. The girls, in Brooklyn anyhow, wear a sort of uniform, too-heavy makeup, long black hair (they dye it if it isn't dark), long, dangling earrings and low shoes that tie halfway up to the knee. But you'd know anyhow-they sit watching you like snakes, waiting for the first sign of weakness. It's frightening when you know that some of the boys carry switchblade...
Next he turned to the neatly pressed officers corps uniform on the bed and began to polish the brass buttons. Things were going to be different this year, he had decided last summer. No more demerits for cutting drill or for sloppy shoes. The next time the commanding officer shook his head in disgust, muttering about the shame of being assigned to teach Harvard men the art of war, it wouldn't be on account of Vag's dull brass or stubbly chin. If you're going to do something, do it right, Vag reasoned...
...satisfy the requirement by taking French Ra, a half course reviewing elementary French, and Ca, the first half of intermediate French," Politzer said. "But a person with less than two years in high school must take Cb, the second half of intermediate French, too. I would favor a uniform requirement based on proficiency...