Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...procure his weekly bus, Sanders would slip into a Greyhound driver's uniform, walk into the company yards, slip behind the wheel of an empty bus and rumble away. At trip's finish he returned the bus to its bay. The scheme might lave rolled on indefinitely if Sanders had not dozed off that last afternoon. When he didn't pick up his passengers, one of them called Greyhound to find out why their bus was late...
...that yardstick, the astronomers calculated that the galaxies were receding from earth at more than half the speed of light, or better than 93,000 miles per sec. Since objects with higher velocities are presumed to be more distant in a universe that seems to be expanding at a uniform rate, scientists figured the galaxies were about 10 billion light-years away. That meant they were at least 10 billion years...
...first seconds of the assault, some Deputies took the invaders for Basque terrorists. That notion was soon dispelled when they recognized the group's mustachioed leader, a burly officer wearing the shiny three-cornered hat and green uniform of the paramilitary Civil Guards. He was Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, 49, a notorious far-rightist who had already served seven months for a stillborn 1978 plot to kidnap key Cabinet members and spark a military takeover. Neither Tejero's methods nor goals seemed to have changed much since then. Brandishing his heavy service revolver, he commandeered the podium...
...widely feared institution in Spain. Since its formation in 1844 during the Bourbon monarchy, the corps had been the efficient internal security force of the central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus hardly anyone in Spain was surprised last week when the coup attempt turned out to be spearheaded by men from the corps's traffic division...
There were bright spots in the Crimson performance, most notably, the play of co captain Mark Harris and freshman Monroe Trout. The pair dominated the inside, with Harris--in his last game in a Harvard uniform--shooting seven-for-eight from the floor for 18 points, and Trout pulling down 11 rebounds...