Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animal has been trusted to draw a hearse in a royal funeral since a horse became fractious at Queen Victoria's funeral. Solemn lines of Navy ratings (enlisted men) in uniform blue hauled the gun carriage that bore the King's coffin. Behind them, in the bright red and gilt state coach, rode the bereaved women, dim, veiled, scarcely visible: Britain's young Queen, her mother, her sister Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal. Behind them, walking four abreast, came the Royal Dukes: Edinburgh, the Queen's husband; Gloucester, the King's younger brother...
Immediately after Briehl's talk, a young a man who described himself as a first year law student jumped onto the stage and yanked off his jacket, exposing the uniform of the Free German Youth movement. He explained that he went to the Festival in the summer of 1951 "to see if it was sincere." He questioned the truth of many of the speaker's statements...
...College it is relatively easy to schedule a satisfactory three-year program for the able students who are willing to increase somewhat the load in the regular terms and to study at least one summer. Indeed I see no reason why, for students who have served two years in uniform, the three-year degree which was so common forty years ago might not mark the usual completion of work in Harvard College...
...hear about the King dying?' I knew right then who he meant. Jeez, I was surprised. And kind of stunned. I remember when he inspected us in England. You can't help feeling sorry for the man. The Princess inspected us too, when she was in uniform herself. She just walked down the line in those god-awful brown stockings, just as big as life, and now she's Queen. It sure is a jolt...
Before his day in office the racket had been haphazard in the extreme-non-uniformed fire department inspectors had simply demanded whatever they thought a contractor would pay. But Moran put things on a business basis. He put fire inspectors in uniform, doubled their take-home pay by matching their salaries with graft money...