Word: uniform
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...Freshman Urban Program T-shirt captured the wit and energy that characterized my first week at Harvard. In addition, it gave me membership in a group of service-minded individuals and a uniform with which to recognize them. I laundered the shirt following the instructions my mother had given me (cold water for white shirts and underwear), folded it and placed it in an empty drawer in my Mower room...
...entered Radcliffe in 1942, the war had been on for nine months. Half of our class, including myself, were commuters. For those of us who lived in the dorms, the pleasant pre-war amenities soon became memories. By 1943, most of our Harvard classmates were in uniform. The WAVES moved into Briggs Hall and then later into Whitman. Radcliffe students were crowded into the rest of the dorms and outside houses. Progress across the Radcliffe and Harvard Yards meant dodging lines of marching women...
...Everybody was in uniform," says James J. Collins '46, who served in the Navy for a year and a half before receiving an early discharge and graduating in June 1946. "If you weren't, you were a little bit odd. I remember when I got out of the Navy and didn't have a uniform anymore, it was strange...
Cambridge is not safe. Even the lush, verdant lawns of Harvard Yard have ceased to be a haven from crime. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Cambridge was ninth in violent crime in Massachusetts...
...morning after the speech, Dole opened the Senate (old habits die hard), then lit out for the territory--first stop, Chicago. He boarded the plane in his Senate uniform, dark suit, starched white shirt, sober tie, and then--Honey, get me wardrobe!--emerged in Chicago in khakis and open-neck shirt. "Quick-change artist," Dole quipped. Clothes make the new man. It was Bob Dole, Unplugged and Untied...