Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gunter finds that courses at Harvard tend to restrict students and lecturers along a "uniform path of regulations." While the lack of requirements and outlines for Berlin courses sometimes leads to extremes of laziness or diligence, it does allow each individual at the University to use his own judgement in choosing materials and setting a working pace...
Inspecting imported wheat last week, the manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...
...think that's a little old for you, sir. What about this one? . . . Oh, yes. That's very much more you, sir. Comfy? Comfy?" There is the usual lecherous intern (named Benskin and known as "the ravishing reindeer") and the redheaded night nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with a soft center"); the inevitable cold turkey of a head nurse ("You will not walk upon any part of the floor that has recently been polished") and a ruddy great bear ("Sister, how in Hades do you expect me to operate with this jam spreader?") of a head surgeon (James...
...April Fool's Day. The characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species, man . . . farm-hunters and fame-hunters, heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness-hunters, truth-hunters and still keener hunters after all" these hunters." The multiform hunters are uniform prey; they exist only to be duped...
...Marcos' elder brother Juan arrived home in a braid-bedecked uniform from Venezuela's main military academy, and Marcos decided to become an officer too. His nearsightedness barred him from his first choice, the air force, so he took the school's two-year course in artillery, and at 18 got his first command, a battery of two venerable cannon. After a stretch of teaching at the academy, Pérez Jiménez finished his own military education with three years at the Peruvian War College in Lima. By 1945 he was a major, and-like...