Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nightly, last week-as he has since mid-July-a chunky, middle-aged man in the road uniform of the New York Giants strode bravely out into that awful illumination. His flannel livery (a hand-me-down formerly worn by none other than Giant Second Baseman Eddie Stanky) was as genuine as a Spalding label. So were his cleated shoes, his tilted cap and his shambling, plate-bound walk. It was hard not to believe he was some weathered stray from the Polo Grounds who would presently wheel, find himself in the wrong park, and bolt for the dugout...
...bill for twelve weeks, he would be the first to agree that there might be waste, said O'Mahoney unctuously. "But I should not like to have any person reading the Congressional Record tomorrow morning gather from what my friend from Illinois has said that the men in uniform . . . are willfully making more mistakes than those which are made by all human beings...
...Mahoney: "My purpose ... is to make clear that he was not intending to attack the patriotism or devotion of these men in uniform...
...Asch Express pulled out of Prague's Woodrow Wilson Station at 9:55 one morning last week, Conductor August Beb. his paunch taut but official in his brass-buttoned uniform, walked slowly through the train to see that all was in order. His train was not a big one: a baggage car and three coaches with 100-odd passengers. And there were two baskets of fruit he was supposed to deliver at the Asch station. For a veteran Communist who had spent years studying Marxism, the run was not much to look forward to. Beb often complained to friends...
When war broke in 1941, Baker found himself behind a desk in Washington. He started off as Vice Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, but went into uniform in 1942 to set up the Requirements Organization for Quartermasters Corps. After this job, which he calls "the most interesting of my career," he went into the Special Planning Division of the War Department General Staff...