Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there you have the type of rubber-jawed female who thinks she's going all-out for victory by slapping some unoffending stranger with the sneer: "Why aren't you in uniform?" when he's liable to be a discharged vet or someone like me, who volunteered and was rejected three times for hernia. Both remarks presuppose that men are free agents and aren't in combat only because they are craven, and that's more nonsense than your Miss Shepard ought to be allowed...
...dead German lay in a ditch. In his worn, dirty infantry-private's uniform, he looked like a fallen bronze statue covered with a heavy greyish-green patina-except for the wax-yellow face, the blond hair and the staring blue eyes. He was young, not much over...
...World War I honest Bernard O'Reilly wore the uniform of a sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary. One day in 1916, near his post along the lonely Kerry coast, a U-boat surfaced, put a passenger ashore. Sir Roger Casement, famed Irish patriot, was back from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...
...were temporarily suspended from practicing in workmen's compensation cases last week, the total number of New York City's 16,000 physicians thus convicted of crooked dealing this year passed the 1,000 mark. (The figure might be even higher if 890 accused doctors now in uniform had not been excused from answering charges.) The suspensions were the result of a State drive against one of the nation's richest rackets: the "kickback" racket that has netted unscrupulous New York insurance men, lawyers, physicians and X-ray laboratories as much as $5,000,000 a year...
...When [Heavyweight Champion Staff Sergeant] Joe Louis landed in England, somebody said to him, 'Why are you so happy to be in uniform? Your country isn't so nice to your people.' Joe looked at the man and said, 'Mister, I know there are things wrong with my country, but it's nothing Hitler...