Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exactly as in his profile photographs, well known in America: he is of medium (5 ft. 8 in.) but athletic build, with a lifted head, rather blond, grey eyes and bushy eyebrows and the finely chiseled face of an American Indian. He wore boots and a simple grey-green uniform. Only the golden laurel leaves at his lapels and cuffs indicated the Supreme Commander of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. At his feet lay Tiger, a German police dog the size of a calf...
...only about 8% of its people in uniform, but it still hopes it can finish the war without seriously discommoding the remainder of its civilian population. This was the apparent meaning of a delicate revision of the rules which Selective Service sent last week to local draft boards...
These birds wore the uniform of our country, some with gold eagles, some with just one, and they arrived in a cavalcade of motor cars. When the band played the national anthem we were at attention facing them. Some of them just kept on smoking, one sat on the fender of his car, a dozen or more took their caps off civilian style...
...slapped into the Beyond by a bomb at the beginning of the film, and cinemaudiences know from the start what they are in for. Result: a notable lapse in 1) suspense, 2) immediacy, since the presence of Merchant Mariner George Tobias hardly compensates for the lack of a single uniform aboard the strangely uncrowded phantom ferry...
This heart-warming moment was an instant of quiet in three days of hubbub and hero worship which began as soon as his seven brothers (six in uniform) pummeled a welcome on his back at the airport. "Commando" quickly settled one point in the hubbub: whether the dilapidated alley home was a fit place for a returning Congressional Medal of Honor winner. (City officials had first offered a new apartment, then engaged a $55-a-day suite at the William Penn Hotel when they learned that the Kelly home had no electric lights, no bathroom plumbing and little paint.) Said...