Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tourists in Uniform. Newspapers are full of talk about Anglo-American understanding and friendship (nobody knows TIME, JANUARY 10, 1944 exactly what to do about it). Oxford and Cambridge are open to American soldiers for study on furlough. People give joint Anglo-American parties, organize clubs and canteens, exchange purring speeches. Some inescapable friction remains. The Americans and the British are getting all mixed up together for war; whether their friendship will survive and last, none can tell...
Manpower. Of 725,000 Canadian men & women now in uniform, all but 70,000 are volunteers. The 70,000 draftees are liable for service on the North American continent only. In World War I there were more than 647,000, of whom about 90,500 were drafted. Of World War II's totals, 37,800 are women; in World War I only women with the armed services were 2,900 nurses...
...acts. Said the League: "Nearly every temple and synagogue in the Washington Heights area has been desecrated. Building walls have been marked with the swastika, and pornographically hateful descriptions of the Jews. At least two Protestant churches in the area have been similarly desecrated. . . . The assault incidents have a uniform pattern. In each case the hoodlum demands to know the religion of his intended victim. If the victim admits he is Jewish, or if the hoodlum concludes that this is the fact... an assault ensues. The age range of the anti-Semitic hoodlums is 10 to 14. They travel...
...Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach of June has such static effects upon your behaviour as to cause you to be on time for classes with both eyes open, though the rest of you be closed; when all these things culminate in a full dress uniform, a bridal veil, and a minister ... brother...
...armed the Republic. He had kept faith with the people. In a general's uniform, he stood for the civilian substance of this democratic society. Civis Americanus, he had gained the world's undivided respect. In the name of the soldiers who had died, General George Catlett Marshall was entitled to accept his own nation's gratitude...