Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teen-age gangs who swagger about New York's West Side-in the standard uniform of leather jacket, ducktail hairdo and handy switchblade-like to boast that they are the Egyptian Dragons or the Assassins and that they can lick anybody on the street. But they can thank their geography that they have never had a rumble with a gang from the Far East...
...additional year's service, he voluntarily took command of a small forest encampment at El Hourane, a job that no one else wanted because the duty was both dull and dangerous. Early in February this year, the risks caught up with him. Algerian rebels, disguised in the Spahi uniform of Dubos' troopers, overran the El Hourane post, carried Olivier Dubos and 17 of his men into captivity in the Kabylia mountains...
Much confusion-and a good reason why every company can claim perfection-arises from the fact that cigarette testing is still an inexact science. There is no uniform standard on how many cigarettes need be sampled, which automatic smoking machines to use, how strong, long or frequent the puffs should be, how to trap the hundreds of different substances lumped together as "tar." Result: each company naturally uses whatever tests serve it best...
...campaign is to establish a stable price and uniform quality for its exports by policing Japanese industry, encouraging manufacturers to design their own products. The idea is already showing results, though there are plenty of problems. The best Japanese transistor radios compete on even terms with RCA's-and $4,300,000 worth of them poured into U.S. markets in 1958's first six months. The one trouble is that so many fly-by-night Japanese companies are trying to hop aboard the gravy train that the Japanese Trade Ministry has been forced to lay down a check...
...Five-Day Wonder. A few days later, Otto Witte rode into Durazzo, resplendent in fancy-dress uniform and medals. The entire population of the city turned out to cheer him. Graciously, Otto greeted his adherents, then ordered Essad Pasha to assemble his forces for a campaign "to conquer Belgrade." This, Otto would recall with a grin, so delighted the local military that they promptly expressed the intention of proclaiming him King of Albania. Soberly, "Prince Halim Eddine" agreed to mount the throne. His title: King Otto...