Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...texture not unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
...gonna keep the boys in uniform after they've seen high-pay help-wanted ads? Ever since Korea, that has been the U.S. armed forces' multibillion-dollar-a-year question. Cooks, truck drivers, and professional privates re-enlist at a brisk rate, but such specialists as radar and missile technicians usually get out when their first hitches are up, taking along with them into better-paid civilian jobs the expensive training that the U.S. Government has given them...
After that awful inning last week, few cared that Bob Lemon came on to win for Cleveland, 2-1. It was more important that reports from the hospital grew steadily brighter. At week's end, doctors were hopeful that Fast Baller Score would be back in uniform before the 1957 season ends...
...Well, Anyhow. In Brisbane, Australia. Salesman James Bernard Donohue was arrested for wearing a uniform and impersonating a policeman while selling advertising for a booklet entitled ''Crime Does...
...feet above the 50-yard target area, at a clip of 80 m.p.h., Weatherly-White dropped to the ground a mere 9 ft., 3 1/2 in. from the target center, amid the cheers of almost 1,000 spectators, who were held back by U.S. Marine Corps guards, in dress uniform, and officers of the Connecticut State Police...