Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staff, Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining excused himself, strode back to his desk in Room 4E929 in the Pentagon. He smoothed his jacket, laid aside his inevitable cigar, nodded to an aide. At the signal a door swung open and a Russian officer resplendent in a white uniform walked in and introduced himself: Colonel Philip Bachinsky, the Soviet air attache in Washington. Bachinsky politely conveyed to Nate Twining the compliments of Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky, chief of staff of the Red army, and presented an invitation: Sokolovsky requested the pleasure of General Twining's company in Moscow June...
...uniform law be passed, effective throughout the nation, for dealing with solicitation of one sex by another...
Diluted Zeal. The Army began heading full tilt toward a blowoff last winter. It was provoked when it learned that Air Force commanders (dressed in Bermuda shorts that the Air Force is introducing as its summer uniform) had staged a remarkable public-relations session in Puerto Rico. Among those on hand was Brigadier General Robert Lee (God Is My Co-Pilot) Scott, fired with zeal in his new job as information director for the Air Force. Scott had prepared a slambang, let-out-all-stops press campaign, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Strategic Air Command and aimed at proving...
These forces would include all officers and men of the armed forces, all wearing the same uniform. The officers would come from the old Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, would be on a single promotion list, and would at the outset be integrated by rank and seniority on the new AFUS roster. Later, officers would come from a National Defense Academy. There would still be quartermasters, medics, research and development commands, etc., integrated and directed through the appropriate Assistant Secretary of National Defense and staff section...
...passenger flight to Baltimore, he saw a pink puddle on the rug between the forward luggage compartments. Thinking it might be hydraulic fluid, he put his finger in it, put the finger to his nose, and sniffed. It was not hydraulic fluid so he wiped his finger on his uniform and forgot about...