Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Lieut. Colonel Poletti began selling democracy to Italians. He saw all callers. In wrinkled uniform, slouched behind a huge desk, he listened to complaints, cracked jokes, gave out facts, usually ended interviews with a pep talk reminding Italians of their responsibilities and opportunities. Visitors were flattered by hearing their own language, by the deft touch...
They were so horribly bloated and discolored that even their race was indeterminate but the uniform was that of our own men. When we tried to take hold of their arms and legs and lift them up and over into the boat, the skin would slip away in our hands. One of our boys was sick from the odor...
What we want out here are musicals, preferably in prewar settings, because it gripes us no end to see some dashing young bum in an Army uniform surrounded by beauteous blondes, fighting the battle of "Celluloid...
...Agreed politely with the American Chemical Society that it would "deter the conduct of the war to take young chemists, chemical engineers and physicists away from work" and put them into uniform...
Benito Mussolini's eye had lost its. glitter. Eight months had leafed away since his fall from power in Rome. In his Nazi-guarded villa on the shores of North Italy's Lago di Garda, he donned his grey general's uniform, began the day's mock routine of a mock Duce...