Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uniformity among the Houses appeared to be becoming a fact yesterday, but the suggestions backed by the Council called for an equalizing of times for the enter- tainment of women guests, for a uniform system of checking in and out, and for punishment in individual cases to be dealt out by proctors and Senior Tutors with only serious and chronic offenders to be dealt with by the Administrative Board of the College...
...victim's dramatic last appearance better than the execution cause. The condemned at Nürnberg did not fail to make the most of their chance. While the late Joachim von Ribbentrop was still swinging from the first gallows, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, in well-pressed uniform and gleaming boots, mounted the second scaffold briskly, as though it were a reviewing stand, and said: ". . . More than two million German soldiers went to their deaths for the Fatherland. I follow now my sons...
...placed in charge of the prison a pompous, unimaginative, and thoroughly likable officer who wasn't up to his job. Colonel Burton C. Andrus loved that job. Every morning his plump little figure, looking like an inflated pouter pigeon, moved majestically into the court, impeccably garbed in his uniform and highly shellacked helmet. His bow to the judges as they entered was one of the sights of Nürnberg. He loved to pen little notes: "The American Colonel invites the distinguished French prosecutor and his staff to accompany him to a baseball game...
Cocq captained a company of 17 merchants who were amateur warriors on the side. What they wanted was to see themselves in uniform hanging over the clubhouse mantel. What they got was a huge canvas crowded with unnecessary children, reservists and dogs and occasionally glimpses of themselves rushing about with pikes and muskets in a theatrical storm of light. The light, blooming and whirling among the shadows, made them appear incidental-as they were...
...years later a ribbon of road was slowly unwinding eastward from India. It was Stilwell's road back. His uniform was the same, except that now he wore a Chinese cap. He was always too close to the front to wear the stars of his rank. Once, as he passed a working party of U.S Negro engineer troops, one remarked: "Look at that poor old man. Some draft boards will do anything...