Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one evening last week, a dignified, white-haired man, his lawyer at his side, walked into Los Angeles' towering county jail building and surrendered on his bond. At the booking desk he emptied his pockets, received an ill-fitting blue denim uniform to replace his elegant double-breasted grey flannel suit. Soon, reported a turnkey, No. 22487 was "sleeping like a baby" in the upper bunk of cell 10A2 on the twelfth floor. Hollywood Producer Walter (Stagecoach) Wanger, 57, a suave man with "no previous arrests," had begun what he called his "summer vacation...
...Next day Ike went to Walter Reed Hospital to have a stubborn case of-pink eye examined, while Mamie got her first chance in seven months at a U.S. department store. Ike made his duty calls at the Pentagon and lunched formally with Defense Secretary Lovett. Then, trading his uniform for a well-cut civilian suit, Ike Eisenhower followed his high road on out across...
...architects of the new Europe had completed their paper plans. Now the negotiations would pass into the rougher hands of Parliaments, including the U.S. Senate. Before the first German soldier can don his European uniform, both the German peace contract and EDC's multilateral guarantees must be ratified. Until then, EDC is plan without substance: East German soldiers are already putting on their army suits; no West German will until...
...trade, the Russians were quite ready to let Ana rot in jail, and asked only for Gheorghiu-Dej. Instead wily Antonescu gave them Ana. While Gheorghiu-Dej sweated out the war in a concentration camp, Ana squeezed herself into a Red army colonel's uniform in Moscow and made hay with the Kremlin. Triumphantly back in Bucharest in 1944, she personified Soviet power, drove a bulletproof automobile, enjoyed Bucharest's best food and its fastest growing waistline. She was said to be the only Rumanian Communist who could pick up a phone and talk to Stalin...
Island when it was stormed by the Japanese. Said Devereux: "In politics, sometimes, you never know when you get hit . . . It is an entirely different kind of battle, a kind of battle out of uniform...