Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hale and a friend, Sergeant Stephen Hempstead, went to Norwalk, Conn. "Capt. Hale had changed his uniform for a plain suit of citizen's brown clothes," the sergeant recalled later, "with a round broad-brimmed hat; assuming the character of a Dutch schoolmaster." Before they parted company, Hale left all his valuables and papers, except for his Yale diploma (which he needed to establish his disguise) with the sergeant. Then a friendly sea captain ferried him across Long Island Sound to Huntington, and left...
Sympathy in the Library. To his students, he was every inch the admiral. He might appear in class in riding breeches or at the opera in a cape, but he always seemed the skipper just temporarily out of uniform. In his book-lined study, he could be the genial host or sympathetic adviser. But in his students and shipmates alike, the quality he liked best was boldness. "And when you go out on the tide," he once advised a fellow yachtsman who was planning a cruise, "don't bother with the channel. Go out between the two little islands...
...Washington, London and Paris to hurry home for an urgent conference. "German neutrality is out!" was the word the old man would give them when they arrive this week. To make sure his allies understood, Adenauer indicated that he would speed up legislation to get the West Germans into uniform, try to have it written into law before the Big Four meet...
...trees swarmed with black urchins and the crowds along the road shouted "Vive le Roi!" as Leopoldville welcomed young (25) King Baudouin to the Belgian Congo's steamy, metal-rich and thriving jungleland. Resplendent in white-and-gold uniform, Baudouin was the first Belgian monarch the Congo had seen since 1928, when grandfather Albert I visited a far less prosperous and bustling Congo...
Finally, when the comparative handful of engineering students do graduate, the U.S. swoops down and puts 10,000 yearly into uniform. This leads to the peculiar spectacle of defense officials screaming for more engineers while inducting them into the armed forces, often to serve in jobs where their skills are not fully used...