Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon, Franco in white admiral's uniform and Abdullah in kalpak boarded the Spanish cruiser Miguel de Cervantes. A high wind blew off Abdullah's kalpak but a lackey promptly produced another. All was shipshape as the Cervantes steamed proudly into El Ferrol to receive a 21-gun salute from other Spanish vessels and the visiting U.S. warships. Beaming with delight, Franco waved at the U.S. Marines as they presented arms while the Columbus band struck up Spain's national anthem, the Marcha Real...
...episode pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him a crook. And with that, the investigating committee adjourned for at least a month...
...some 900,000 civilians who have been working for the Army, Navy and Air Force at everything from tapping typewriters to hammering rivets into ships. At the time of Johnson's order, there was one civilian employee in the armed services to every two men in uniform; now many a serviceman would have to work harder...
...learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...
After listening to the squawks of World War II civilian-sailors for four long years, the Navy authorized the first basic change in the bluejacket's uniform since 1817. It ruled that in 1952 the pants of dress blues will be equipped with full-size pockets for the first time and that the 13 button-drop front (an incongruous symbol of the first 13 colonies, according to tradition) will be replaced by a zippered...