Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after seven years in the city, he "went on the cops." He attended the school for recruits, made the grade, and was assigned to a night beat on the Brooklyn waterfront. For the next seven years, he wore a cop's uniform. He learned many things: that it was 'often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...
...Haste. MacArthur himself last week changed to summer uniform-a cherished one he had worn on Corregidor and on his arrival at Atsugi airdrome, in the late summer of 1945, to take over the defeated country. He talked or worked in his office with his shirt collar unbuttoned, applying innumerable matches to one or another of his 17 pipes...
...Girard staff includes a psychiatrist and two psychologists, but problem kids are rare. Every boy learns to dance and to read music. And women teachers take them to restaurants to learn all about dining out, French menus and conversation with girls. Hummers wear no special uniform; each boy's free G.I. (Girard Issue) is two new tailor-made suits a year...
...forebears as the Yale lock is unlike the wooden tumbler-lock of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Democracy has taught him to hate slavery-and the machine has made him so little of a slave that he scarcely needs to use his hands and jaws and legs. The more "neutral" and "uniform" a product is, the more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which...
...Losses. Detective Wittenberg, a member of "New York's Finest" since 1941, is the finest U.S. amateur wrestler in & out of uniform. Last month he became the first man ever to win seven National A.A.U. senior wrestling titles. He is also the best U.S. bet to win the heavyweight Olympic wrestling event this summer in London (toughest competitors: the Turks and Swedes...