Word: uniform
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been hard-pressed to do what he has done without his sophomores. Because he had so many of them--players like Ike Canty, Phil Haughey, Dick Hurley, Bob Hastings, Ron Barnett, Neil Muncaster, Bob Dolven, and Lou Lowenfels--he has made it a real achievement just to get a uniform to wear at the game. Even the hold-over veterans, Captain Roger Bulger, Harry Sacks, Dick Manning, have found it difficult to keep the sophomores off the floor...
Leaning from the blue and gilt private car, the smiling, curly-haired young prince acknowledged his welcome. Behind him, whispering a word in his ear from time to time, was a short, leathery man in the olive uniform of the Spanish army. He was Lieut. General Carlos Martinez de Campos y Serrano. Duque de la Torre, the guardian chosen by Franco and Don Juan to guide the prince over the long and narrow path to kingship...
...Laughingly he asked Mussolini whether he wanted Ethiopia with or without Ethiopians, and Mussolini replied that the task was to carry "Roman civilization" to East Africa. From Italian Somaliland he rode into Ethiopia at the head of an army of 60,000 men, a strapping figure in his desert uniform, wearing a monocle. His "Hell on Wheels" offensive bogged down. Finally, by liberal use of poison gas and bombs, he scattered Ras Desta's barefooted Ethiopians, and on horseback at the head of his troops he entered the village of Neghelli, which he described in flamboyant dispatches...
Last week, Willie and the Giants learned something they might have suspected last September: too many days in uniform can turn baseball into a dreary business. Tired, his temper on edge, the old pleasure of playing gone, 23-year-old Willie got into a batting-practice scuffle with his Giant teammate, Ruben Gomez. Later, Willie denied everything. "All those stories about a fight-phooey." he said. "Ruben and I are pals...
...Haydn's day, every culture-loving nobleman supported a composer on the place. Prince Nicolas ("the Magnificent") Esterhazy fully supported Haydn and his orchestra for nearly 30 years. The composer had to wear a court uniform and dished up music on order, but he got his chance to become the era's most famed composer. A generation later, public concerts began to thrive and noble patronage to bow out. In 20th century Europe the state shoulders the load. In the U.S., until recently, there has been only a scattering of such dedicated individuals as the late Elizabeth Sprague...