Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front...
...Women's war activities, either in uniform or in overalls, are not necessarily signs of aggressiveness or masculinity. Instead they may express woman's passiveness and masochism, or merely her passive acceptance of the general mood of the times. To some women the uniform is a welcome protection against social prejudices...
...moonlit night in the rolling hill country near Bath, a tall, uniformed figure stopped at a lorry driver's cottage and tapped on the door. A window was raised, a few words were exchanged and presently a woman stepped out with a coat thrown over her nightdress. She walked down the road beside the man in the uniform...
...Ball is under the direction of the Yearbook Staff of the present Junior Class at the Harvard Four Months School. The uniforms for the dance will be whites for all officers, and for the midshipmen, the authorized dress uniform, dress blue "D", with...
Things are pretty quiet around the White House until Johnny comes march ing home. He quickly changes into his khaki uniform, Sam Browne belt and over seas cap, which are as near to G.I. as regulations allow. (He broods over the fact that he cannot wear regulation buttons, insignia and decorations.) Sometimes he gets in an awkwardly uneven game of ping-pong with his mother, or a swim, but usually he breaks out of doors to climb trees and get all dirty. When this palls he remembers his ambition, and strides down to the guard house to help the soldiers...