Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of U.S. civilians now in "essential" jobs will be in uniform within the next few months...
...cloudless sky undisturbed, dropping their bombs with exquisite exactness. Between the waves of bombers the artillery Long' Toms and 240-mm. howitzers pumped shells up the hill. The mountain seemed to jump and quiver, like a great bear twitching in sleep. Observers counted 200 men, some allegedly in uniform, scurrying out of the devastated monastery. As the next-to-last wave of 20 Marauders dropped a cluster smack on the abbey, an American soldier yelled: "Touchdown...
...once again men in uniform are crowded together in Hollis. Once again they will leave to fight a war of existence. Hollis has gone through one that will see either the continuation of the tradition of Hollis or the death of it and the University whose existence it mirrors...
...main force concentrates on Norfolk. Armed with pistols and night sticks, they patrol on foot by twos, ride along in the city's prowl cars, or cover the county roads in trucks. They arrest all drunk and disorderly servicemen and all out-of-uniform sailors...
...advertising men found Veteran Caldwell's estimate corroborated in other quarters. From all the evidence, U.S. advertising had struck some sour notes with the men in uniform. Variety, after interviewing news commentators returned from overseas, reported: "The G.I.s, they say, resent the constant emphasis on the rose-tinted postwar conditions that will prevail back home at a time when the burden of the battle must still be borne. The commentators say the fighting boys, after catching a gander at such ads in magazines and newspapers sent to the front, throw them away in disgust...