Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land of We Hate You, the people prepare to greet the democratic delegation from I Love Me. Their clothing is uniform, their movements are regimented, their faces are set and purposeful. In uni on they sing: Marching! Marching! Marching! Marching ! Rise the bitter Rise the hateful Rise the needy to our call We shall struggle We shall conquer One the class to rule for all. Pain and suffering our weapons Fear and hunger lead to hate We'll divide, confuse and conquer Victory is our fate! The arriving delegates from I Love Me are not dismayed by such displays...
...commodore: "If you do it, don't make a bloody mess." Upshot was that Wintle was clapped into the Tower of London, where the admiring Scots Guards on duty plied him with whisky, cigars, and duck in aspic. But Wintle refused to let them clean his boots and uniform. "Much as I admire the Guards," he said coldly, "I do not feel they quite understand how to look after a cavalry officer...
Heart of the Team. On the bench, ruminating over a cud of tobacco, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Catcher Campanella is the picture of tranquillity. He never makes an unnecessary move. Take away the uniform, and he would look for all the world like a displaced Buddha in calm contemplation. But the fans sit up when he waddles to his place behind the plate. A remarkable transformation takes place: the somnolent bulk becomes a quick and agile athlete. After he has strapped on the "tools of ignorance,"* hunkered down in the close confines of the modern catcher...
...sooner was Campy squared away with the Bacharach Giants than he was hired away by the Washington Elite Giants (which later became the Baltimore Elite Giants). One afternoon the Elite manager gave Campy a uniform to try on and whisked him off to a game in Norristown, Pa. Before long, Campy quit high school and went barnstorming with the Elites from New York to Kansas City, following the crazy, mixed-up schedules of the Negro leagues...
...Kaiserin Victoria), the Kaiser sent an order saying that "Prussian eagles, even when sitting, must be represented as if they were flying." No great soldier himself, he worried his general staff, as Author Kürenberg puts it, by "losing himself more and more in external trappings, designing new uniforms and braidings or inventing cords and silver whistles for dispatch riders." He could be arrogant enough to tell King Alfonso of Spain publicly to go back and put his uniform on right, so incredibly undiplomatic as to say at the death of his uncle, King Edward VII of England...