Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated by Hattie into the WAC uniform. Another recent Carnegie creation: a modernized habit for a branch of the Carmelite nuns...
Most of the men in the small cement fortress near the Moroccan border were Moslem riflemen in French uniform, professionals and veterans who had fought for France in Europe and Indo-China. Only the officer in command and a scattering of other ranks were French. Among the 80 Moslems was Corporal Cheraf Abd el Krim, who in Indo-China had been captured by the Communist Viet Minh and then released...
...ended up in Saipan as a private, first class, with the U.S. Army Air Forces, painted murals for the enlisted men's clubhouse, and cheesecake figures (at $50 apiece) on the noses of B-29s. But even the Army failed to cure Cloar's wanderlust. Out of uniform, he took off for Mexico and South America, then on to Europe...
...Echoing Phrase. But it was another phrase in Nixon's speech that riled his perennial Democratic enemies and nettled Republican friends too. Outlining the Eisenhower Administration's accomplishments ("Prosperity without war, full employment outside of uniform, and security without regimentation and control"), Nixon spoke of great gains in civil rights. Said he: "And, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, the great Republican Chief Justice, Earl Warren, has ordered an end to racial segregation in the nation's schools." Northern Democrats soon charged that Nixon was dragging the high court into politics; Southern Democrats cried that his statement...
...direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts" and "No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey...