Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outwardly, Ike Eisenhower has changed little through all this. He is as natural, kindly, down-to-earth as ever. But he is a strict disciplinarian with the troop formations under his command. He is a bear on uniform neatness, a bug on such items of military smartness as saluting. Once in Eighth Air Force headquarters he took General "Tooey" Spaatz down because West Pointer Spaatz, steeped in the Air Force ways of offhand efficiency, had banned saluting in the corridors as a damned nuisance...
...Thames, there was sculling as usual. At the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show in Westminster, a new iris called "Radiant" aroused much interest in its light apricot and crimson-bronze shadings. London's hordes of strangers in uniform thinned out. Londoners felt that they were at last getting back their own town. It was even possible to get a restaurant table without advance booking...
...dance, designed to bring officers and midshipmen together in an event of their own, will be formal. Uniforms will be whites for all officers, and the authorized dress uniform, dress blues "D," with how tie, for the midshipmen...
...embroiled caucus the men of Company 1 decided that Roosevelt had been in long enough. They did recognize that he has given to the country a great many things, such as: SEC, HOLC, RFC, OPA, WPB and V-12; the last, his greatest contribution. But when the Naval Uniform shop can't get our whites here on time for graduation, and their grays split every time we bend over, we must have new leadership. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and put Sam the Tailor at the helm. (This...
Because Harvard is now largely in uniform, Cambridge hoodlums have lately paid less attention to students, more to Jews and Negroes. Harvard liberals have been distressed to find antiSemitism, with which metropolitan Boston has seethed for months, raising its head within the university itself...