Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the White House, Harry Truman barely had time to wash up a bit before playing host to a royal visitor: Belgium's Regent Charles-Theodore-Henri-Antoine Meinrad, Count of Flanders. Prince Charles arrived amid a din of sirens. He wore the khaki uniform of a major general, was accompanied by Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. A tall young man with a penchant for playing ping-pong, he looked rather bored...
...Since civilians will be the chief victims in any future war, they should have the most doctors. This was agreed on by medicos both in mufti and in uniform, at a Chicago meeting of the American Medical Association's Council on National Emergency Medical Service. What most worried Rear Admiral Morton D. Willcutts: Where to stack the radioactive corpses? Said he: "The question of disposal of civil ian dead will be formidable...
Major Desmond Ferneaux-Lightfoot, D.S.O., of His Majesty's .Brigade of Guards, fascinated Harriet because his character was so mixed. Snootily correct in his brilliant uniform, free-&-easy in old country clothes, Desmond's "animal eyes" made him a scary lover, but he had a wonderfully gentle way with children. To hear him in church, intoning the responses in a pious voice, was enough to convince you that he was a sanctimonious prig-until you saw him gay & dashing in a nightclub. The trusted confidant of his general, Desmond was one of the most promising officers...
Dwight Eisenhower, in civilian clothes just six weeks, climbed back into uniform and rushed to West Point to play a supporting role in a dewy-eyed, unmilitary picture with son John, daughter-in-law Barbara Jean, and first grandchild Dwight David...
Three years ago Père Riquet preached to his first large Paris audience, dressed in the faded, striped prison uniform of Dachau (where he was sent for helping U.S. and British flyers escape from France). So great was his success that he was appointed prédicateur (preacher) at Notre Dame. Since then, half of Paris has come to hear him-including Communist Chieftains Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, as well as middle-road Premier Schuman...