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Word: uniform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British gym slip clings fast, although it reveals nothing. The frosty comment of a spokeswoman for Brighton's Roedean School: "We have absolutely no intention of modifying our uniform." During the week, well-blossomed (35-24-36) Suzanne Cripps, 12, was asked to leave St. Helena's school for girls in Eastbourne. Reason: With her mother's consent, and after school hours, she got herself up in shorts and a halter, was photographed by newsmen. Her headmistress looked at the results, decided she was "much too precocious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Style at St. Trinian's | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...phone call from Public Works Minister Roberto Salazar, a neighbor of kidnaped General Fonseca. "There's a plot against the government," gasped Salazar. "They've taken the generals and are coming for you. You must be dressed when I come by your house." Piedrahita scrambled into his uniform and climbed down the fire escape of his apartment building as Salazar drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Half-Day Revolt | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Julika, when she was half dead with tuberculosis; he also left unpaid debts and broke Swiss law by failing, as a reservist, to ask the authorities for permission to leave the country. "I'm not Stiller!" Sam keeps shouting. But after Stiller's old conscript's uniform, much moth-eaten, is tried on Sam for size and found baggy, he is told: "You've grown thinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who's Who | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...recording is very good, especially for a company that has not had uniform success; the slightly blurred effect is intended to approximate the resonance of a stone church, which it does, for better or worse, depending on one's taste. Listened to in sections, this is a satisfying record, and is certainly worth owning, if only for the Stabat Mater...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Sacred Polyphony | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

...stands before something snapped in his elbow. The team doctor prescribed rest and heat; Manager Walter Alston angrily ordered another kind of medicine. Every game Duke missed because of his horseplay, said Alston, would cost him a day's pay ($275). Next night the Duke was back in uniform, sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boon for Batters | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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