Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There has been much talk of peace and disarmament," said Twining. "Peace and disarmament are not my specialty, but I will say that the man in uniform is the first to want peace. I would like to point out that after World War II, the United States disbanded its military forces almost entirely. This was disarmament. We had to build them up again in the Korean...
...compromise him, and they did it in ways and at times when he could not easily respond. It was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who capped the Kremlin's efforts. In the marble St. Catherine Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace, Tito, in his marshal's powder-blue uniform, sat down with Bulganin and Khrushchev to sign the joint communiqu...
...Whitney; Warner) is another excursion into the patented Old West of Director John Ford. The place is Texas, three years after the Civil War, and the lone figure moving across the vast plain is none other than lean, leathery, disenchanted John Wayne, still wearing bits of his Confederate uniform, still looking for trouble. Trouble finds him. One day, while John's back is turned, Chief Scar and his wild Comanches swoop down and massacre his relatives, carrying off two young girls for their own fell purposes...
...speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito, rotundly resplendent in his dress uniform, asked Black if he might try one of the banker's fancy Corona Corona cigars. After the Yugoslav dictator started to puff away, Black looked at him and drawled: "Now you look like a capitalist." Tito roared, and everyone relaxed...
...tests, 2) Negroes have no unique odor of their own, 3) Africa is a racial crazy quilt, and the modern American Negro is no more closely related to his African ancestors than a modern Greek is to an ancient Greek, 4) all blood is red, and it is uniform except for blood groups. Well-meant though all of this undoubtedly is, it smacks of an overly reasoned-out love-thy-neighbor-BECAUSE philosophy rather than a simple love-thy-neighbor. It even makes Harriet Beecher Stowe's righteous indignation on the closing page of Uncle Tom's Cabin...