Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war Cecil Lambert bigamously married a WAAF named Terry, had her portrait in full uniform tattooed on his forearm. At war's end a court sent him to jail to atone for the bigamy. Last week the first Mrs. Lambert marched her errant and reunited husband down to Tattooist Charlie Bell to remove the last evidence of his past. In Charlie's shop, Cecil sat patiently while Charlie and his wife discussed the problem of erasing the WAAF...
Bill Connolly has been approved by Ivy officials for league participation after disqualification midway last year and will be back to bolster the pitching staff. Vince Moravec will don a Crimson uniform again with doctor's permission in an attempt to win a regular hurling assignment...
...steelmen were also likely to be on the Department of Justice's carpet. Suspicious of the uniform and almost simultaneous price advances, the antitrust division moved with unusual speed, prepared this week to find out why the advances had fallen into such a neat pattern...
Just before sunrise, an armored car and "three trucks, all manned by men in British uniform, drove into Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem's Jewish shopping district. A suspicious British police patrol followed, found the trucks abandoned and spewing smoke. Seconds later they disintegrated with a blast that crumpled nearby hotels, apartments and shops, ripped out windows for a mile around. In Ben Yehuda's rubble at least 52 lay dead, more than 100 wounded...
...Last year on the Don I witnessed a symbolic picture. I saw a half-filled grave, and by it lay a German helmet. In the grave lay a skeleton, only partly covered by the shreds of what was once the grey-green uniform of a German soldier. A sharp-edged fragment of a Soviet shell had shattered his face. The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers...