Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan assigned 20 detectives to the case. Within 48 hours he proudly called newsmen, produced most of the loot, and the robbers, who turned out to be anything but professional. They were unemployed hoodlums, of the variety who are called "sharpies" and who wear a uniform-peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties, tight blue topcoats. The ringleader was Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan...
Like a genial Big Brother, Ike grins down from almost every wall in the office. Pictures of Ike, in well-tailored civics, in a cap and gown, and in uniform, provide the only decorations in the rooms. One three by five foot picture shows his head alone, smiling at a misplaced water cooler, his molars half as big as a fist...
...Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday defeated a bill calling for a uniform state-wide rate on compulsory auto insurance. The House voted 145 to 73 to refer the bill to the next annual session, which is equivalent to killing the measure...
Said a French soldier: "Up there it is cold and everyone is tired. Voila! One sees Mile. Pepita. She is as cold and as tired as anyone else, but still smiling." Pepita's uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...
Then Andrews learns that his old wartime C.O. is back in uniform and needs experienced officers. By that time his sense of duty has had such a workout that he has no trouble persuading his wife (Dorothy McGuire) to keep the home fires bravely burning for their two children while he volunteers for the Army...