Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next Victory Concert will be Sunday at 1600. Felix Fox will be at the piano and Jean Bedetti at the cello. Each man and woman in uniform is entitled to bring one guest...
...richest U.S. agricultural regions had collapsed. In other years the bulk of the Rio Grande Valley crops had been shipped to market in trucks that swarmed the highways. (There are few railroads.) But this year only dozens of trucks-not hundreds-appeared. Truck drivers and owners are in uniform, or working in war plants. And many trucks are laid up for lack of tires and parts...
Seemingly out of place every morning when the junior class lines up at formation is a slightly-built, always smiling officer clad in a distinctive, powder blue uniform. Having heard scuttlebutt going around that he was from (a) the Bolivian Coast Guard, (b) the Chilean Army, and (c) the Nicaraguan Merchant Marine, we sought him out the other evening, just by way of accurately determining his identity. We found out that he is Captain Manual Higueras of the Peruvian Air Force...
Here I am, a dishevelled liberal arts student racing up to register before 4 o'clock, with a bottle of booze in my bag, when I bumps into this guy. He's got a flashy blue uniform on, and loads of gold braid, so I pick myself up and snap to attention, who knows, it might be an admiral. Only it's not an admiral, it's Al Roach, the Yard Cop. "They're mobilizing us," he says. "Gave us uniforms for the first time in 308 years. Don't ask me why, maybe it's protective concealment with...
...chest is calloused from beating it, and I've climbed more trees than a lumberjack. My lines have read like a backward two-year-old talking to his nurse." His program of dress reform, in order of his new movie costumes: 1) a Marine combat-correspondent's uniform, 2) a cowboy outfit, 3) a business suit, 4) perhaps, eventually, evening dress...