Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing was too good for those wonderful guys. The mere uniform made a man a hero: He could hardly pay for his own drinks. Congress stuffed his pockets with benefits. He joined the proud brotherhood of the "ruptured duck," the eagle that everyone wore in his lapel to prove he'd been in it, had done his part. The awful memories of combat and carnage were bathed away in the great national wash of relief and welcome. Hardly any Americans thought much then, or even afterward, about Dresden blasted, Hamburg gone, Hiroshima and Nagasaki reduced to radioactive powder...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made an easy target: dressed in a scarlet uniform, mounted on her charger Burmese and followed by her husband Prince Philip and her son Prince Charles, the Queen, 55, was leading 1,000 troops of her Guards division down London's Mall. The royal family was bound for the huge open ground of the Horse Guards Parade for the annual ceremony of the Trooping the Color in honor of the monarch's official birthday. Suddenly, as millions of television viewers looked on, six shots rang out. The Queen's horse reared...
...since early Camelot, restoring many of the touches that the minimalist Carter had banned. They put the trumpeters back on the White House balcony to welcome foreign visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby, just to salute decoratively and open the door. They spent $736,000 (all privately donated) to refurbish the family living quarters of the mansion, which had become a little tacky. Nancy Reagan wears expensively elegant designer clothes ("American thoroughbred," Women's Wear Daily calls her look...
...lessons, they signal for the supervisor's attention by raising either an eight-inch American flag or a small blue and white Christian flag at their desks. Each day they recite pledges of allegiance to both flags, and to the Bible. They all wear an eye-catching school uniform of red, white and blue; for men (including the school's principal), blue pants, red shirts and flag-studded blue neckties; for women, plaid jumpers or blue skirts and vests with white blouses. Irvington's rules not only bar cheating, swearing and drugs, but also "rock or country...
...Singer, only to lose the film role-and a place in movie history -to Al Jolson. He went on to produce a string of Hollywood movie musicals before hitting his stride as a master of ceremonies and fund raiser. A superpatriot who liked to wear a ribbon-bedecked U.S.O. "uniform" of his own devising, Jessel boasted friendships with five Presidents and took credit for inventing two American institutions: the celebrity "roast" and the Bloody Mary cocktail. A fixture at three decades of Hollywood funerals (he delivered eulogies), he left behind his own epitaph: "I tell you here from the shade...