Word: uniform
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days later, in uniform, he appeared at Jackson, Miss., and in a distinctly political speech, charged the Truman Administration with waste, graft, high taxes, political greed and socialism. Said MacArthur: "Whether it be by accident or design, such policy, formulated with reckless indifference to the preservation of constitutional liberty and our free enterprise economy, coupled with the rapid centralization of power in the hands of a few, is leading us toward a Communist state with as dreadful certainty as though the leaders of the Kremlin themselves were charting the course...
...broadside that shook the Renown off the mud when under the fire of red-hot shot was helpless when confronted by a couple of women." The heroic bounder slinks out on an affair of the heart with his landlady's daughter, and while the lass tearfully presses his uniform, spends the last 50 pages of the book at his club, playing whist...
...R.O.T.C. cadets will be wearing "blues" next fall, Bostrom also reported. This year only those in the advanced group, juniors and seniors, were issued the new Air Force uniform...
When Willie slipped out of Pennsylvania's tough county prison at Holmesburg five years ago-after donning a guard's uniform and waving jauntily to real guards on the walls-many a police inspector ground his molars into a veritable paste and detectives hurled so many cigars into so many stationhouse cuspidors that the night trembled to a sound not unlike the clashing of Oriental gongs. Willie came to New York and got a city job as a porter in an old folks' home. After three quiet years he led five helpers into a Queens branch...
...Western allies had: ¶ Endorsed for the first time German rearmament and the long-proposed European Army. This cleared the way for the continental six-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-to negotiate a treaty fusing their armed forces into an internationalized, one-uniform army of 2,000,000 men, 6,000 warplanes. ¶ Agreed to spend $300 billion for mutual defense in the next three years-the greatest peacetime and peace-policing buildup in history. On paper, that means 50 divisions and supporting forces by the end of 1952, perhaps twice that (including twelve German divisions...