Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wondrously on the convert's poor cloak as a sign of the authenticity of his vision, is the country's most honored shrine. Last month, for a huge mural on Mexican theatrical history, ex-Communist Artist Diego Rivera solemnly sketched the famed comedian Cantinflas in his trademark-uniform, a shabby coat, and then drew the Virgin on the coat. "Sacrilege!" protested Mexico's devout, while Rivera, ignoring the uproar, diligently filled in the outlines around the figure...
...West German Foreign Office received a complaint from the Yugoslav embassy in Bonn charging that British Novelist Evelyn Waugh had "crudely insulted" Marshal Tito in an article written for the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur. The story concerned the time Tito received his first marshal's uniform hat as a gift from the Russians. Wrote Waugh: "I well remember the day when Tito wore it for the first time. It was on the island of Vis, where he lived in August 1944, under the protection of our Navy and our Air Force. The hat was not made to order, according...
...before the Russian people heard it. The London bureaus picked up a broadcast by Tass, the official Russian news agency, to provincial papers, telling them how to play the death story when it was announced. Tass ordered front pages bordered in black with a portrait of Stalin in military uniform filling three columns on the right side of the page then listed five stories (official death notice, funeral arrangements, etc.) to be run on the same page. At the time, all telephonic communication between Moscow and the outside world was cut off for "repairs...
Dartmouth and Yale have good squads; and will give the local runners something at which to aim. Brown and Holy Cross won't offer enough competition to warrant putting on a track uniform. And for the Heps and the IC4A, only the top stars will make the trip...
...renting a whole floor at New York's Doctors Hospital to keep other germ carriers at a distance. She bought dozens of pairs of white gloves, wore them constantly, saw to it that each was dipped in antiseptic after being worn. Her chauffeur had to wear a clean uniform every day. When friends sent her flowers, one of her servants would hold the box under water, open it enough to remove and inspect the card, and then quickly throw box, flowers and card away...