Word: uniformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juice while he dressed, and was in the Oval Office by 7, reading the newspapers and his daily news summary. Although his staff is a shirtsleeves-style crew, Carter has so far worked in a coat and tie, forgoing the sweaters and blue jeans that were his pre-Inaugural uniform in Plains. To ward off the chill, Carter usually sits in an apricot-colored wing chair near a crackling fire. His first appointment every morning, at 8, is with Brzezinski. The only other regular appointment on Carter's daily agenda so far is a 10:30 meeting with Powell...
...loose on his favorite topic: there are too many "coloreds" in Britain. This, he predicted, would produce "eventual conflict on a scale which cannot adequately be described by any lesser term than civil war." Warming up to the war metaphor, Powell called skin color "a permanent and involuntary uniform which performs ... the functions of a uniform in warfare, distinguishing one side from the other, friend and foe, making it possible to see at a glance where to render assistance and where to attack...
Carter's pardon was carefully limited. He excluded those few draft dodgers who had used "force and violence" to stay out of uniform. More important, he did not forgive the 4,500 deserters still at large, or the 88,700 who received less than honorable discharges for deserting or going AWOL. He simply asked the Pentagon to review their cases with the aim of possibly upgrading some discharges. Finally, Carter promised to begin another study of the estimated 173,000 undesirable discharges that had been dispensed during the Viet Nam years. Pentagon critics claim that many men received such...
...cork manufacturer, Zuckmayer won a pocketful of medals in World War I, then turned to writing. His immensely popular comedy about Prussian militarism, The Captain of Koepenick (1931), in which a shoemaker is able to take command of a town simply because he dons an army captain's uniform, earned Nazi wrath. After fleeing Hitler in 1933, Zuckmayer eventually settled on a farm in Vermont and wrote The Devil's General a black-bile drama attacking the Nazi high command. When Germany collapsed, he returned to Europe to compile his affectionate, good-humored memoirs, A Part of Myself...
...editor asked me, on the basis of my coverage of the CHUL meetings, to write a long feature on the housing issue to appear during the first week of the second semester. After explaining the various alternatives and positions, I made a prediction: that CHUL would vote for a uniform system of three-year Houses, and would make certain adjustments in the sex ratio of the Quad Houses. My editor, older and bureaucratically wiser, advised me last February that committees like CHUL generally find adequate solace in the status quo, and end up voting for it. As it turned...