Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army major in a blood-and-mud World War II movie titled Mountain Road, stepped front and center, got an almost-legal field promotion. The film's technical adviser, retired Army Brigadier General Frank Dorn, pinned stars on the collar of "Major" Stewart's soiled fatigue uniform. Cinemactor Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since 1957 by Maine's unyielding Republican Senator Margaret Chase...
...speech before the Summer School Conference on Educational Administration, Conant explained that institution of a European system would necessitate among other measures, abandonment of four-year liberal arts colleges and setting up a uniform standard and system of college admissions...
...rainy afternoon last week President Sukarno tried to find the way back for himself and his country. Dressed in a spotless white uniform, with a black petji set jauntily on his head, Sukarno stood under a brown awning on the columned porch of his Freedom Palace and, "in the name of the one and only God." announced the revival of the 1945 revolutionary constitution. His fiat swept out of office the 17th government to rule Indonesia in 14 years, dissolved the Constituent Assembly, emasculated some 40-odd political parties and caused the resignation of the 27-man Cabinet...
...guardhouse roof, and they stopped and searched all passing trucks. "If anybody we stop does not have identification-prisoner!" grinned Pérez. Off duty, the bearded, long-haired soldiers lounge about reading the leftist official army organ. Olive Green. Slogan: "The army is the people in uniform...
...Manhattan (a close friend of Leopold's and Liliane's)-drove through the cheering streets to the five-century-old St. Gu dule Church. There a shaky but beautiful bride, alternating between stifled giggles and sobs, and a grim, nervous but handsome groom in a resplendent new uniform of a naval commander, heard themselves for the second time pronounced man and wife. "Italy," said the gallant old (85) Cardinal van Roey to the new Princess of Liege, "sends you to Belgium as a ray of its beautiful sun and a reflection of its ardent soul." And outside...