Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressed in the awesome uniform of a jet pilot, the visitor from outer space brought noise and confusion to the supposedly sound-proof study halls. Assistant Librarian P. A. Putnam was unable to extract a bursar's card from the intruder, Putnam did, however, manage to eject the spaceman from the premises. The CRIMSON photographer was also exiled...
...running for the state legislature. Noting that she had gotten more votes than Dwight Eisenhower in her district, Neuberger added a quotation that he attributed to Mark Twain: "It just goes to prove that the voters would rather see Lillian Russell naked than General Grant in full dress uniform...
...many of his friends hunted down by the Nazis, realized sooner than most that Germany was being led to destruction, but from the first he remained passive: "I'm not an accepter, I'm a passionately involved observer." Observer von Salomon managed to stay out of uniform even when much older men were being called up. The former Free Corps machine gunner passed his physical easily. But when the examining officer asked worriedly if by chance he was a Jew, Von Salomon answered calmly: No, but a murderer. Military bureaucracy even under the Nazis boggled at commissioning...
...valet carefully blue-rinsed Marshal Tito's silver hair. The Marshal donned a corset, a medal-spangled uniform with extremely wide red stripes down the pants, then strode off to a fashionable garden party. Behind him through lines of bowing guests, like a plainly dressed retainer showing off a gorgeous bull mastiff, came India's Jawaharlal Nehru. After several days of such festivity, the Marshal decided that he should also demonstrate that he was a Socialist man of the people. Tito thereupon upset New Delhi's snob-laden society by inviting red-turbaned railroad porters...
...servile, rat-faced Castillo Armas shaking hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Castillo Armas bows low; at his belt is an automatic pistol, and in his jacket pocket a thick packet of $10,000 bills. Secretary Dulles, in a battered felt hat and paratrooper's uniform, grips with one hand Rivera's idea of an H-bomb. On the bomb is a leering caricature of President Eisenhower. Whispering in the secretary's ear is his brother, Allen Dulles, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Between Dulles and Castillo Armas, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy...