Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days later, Hart, who detests flying, left on a 28,000-mile trip by bomber. Into two months he had to pack the experience of 15. Using a fake name and wearing a phony uniform, he tasted basic training in Mississippi, sampled college training in Missouri, took classification tests in California. He wound up his training when the nose of his companions' ship "pointed south-for combat...
...Hart; produced by Mr. Rodgers) is not a straight revival. Suspecting that nobody would walk a mile for a Camelot he saw 16 years ago, Messrs. Fields, Rodgers & Hart have redecorated King Arthur's court - waxed the Round Table, polished the armor, restrung the harps, put a Navy uniform on the startled and startling visitor. The result, despite a slow start and a rather trying book, is a likable and lilting piece of Yankee-panky...
...spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with his face hard and his uniform immaculate. Others remembered him as "that sonuvabitch [who] roared past our column in his big staff car, spattering every one of us with mud and water from head to foot." He traced the successive phases of the first Battle of the Marne by the graves of the dead and thought...
First such affair since the recent modification of coastal dim-out regulations, it may be illuminated by torches in the best customary fashion. In contrast to previous rallies, however, will be the fact that many of the parading musicians may be in Navy uniform, since the V-12 band is now the only organization geared to accompany enthusiasts...
...fourth night Premier Joseph Stalin, dressed in the uniform of a Red Army Marshal, received Eden and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. There was a mild flurry back in the U.S.: could it be a snub? But Mountaineer Hull, ever sensitive about his honor and dignity, was unruffled; he knew of the meeting in advance, four nights later had his own audience with Stalin...