Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheeled wildly, found his avenue of retreat blocked by a waitress. She patted his head and asked the cashier, "Is this your little boy, ma'am?" Cornelius shrieked, "Cut that out. This is a stickup." He jammed one pistol into the waitress' starched uniform. A second later she was shaking him angrily. One of his guns fell to the floor and broke into four pieces. The police came, took the money away from him, hauled him off as a delinquent. He did not cry. "I made a mistake somewhere," he said, "I saw it all done...
...been turning men loose at a steadily accelerated rate (1,000,000 last month), abruptly jammed on the brakes. As if realizing it for the first time, the Army announced last week that the problem was no longer how to bring the boys home and get them out of uniform, but how to keep intact a force big enough to meet the nation's global commitments...
...auction was on. Cooper, who had staged a salary rebellion with Brother Mort before joining the Navy last spring, got No. 1 priority on the sales list by blabbing that he would never again put on a Cardinal uniform. The Cooper news was hardly out before the Pittsburgh Pirates admitted that, they had put up some $30.000 for the Cards' pepperpot, switch-hitting Second Baseman Jimmy Brown. Other anxious buyers fretted on the Cardinal doorstep...
Universal military training? No, sir! Boys of 18 and 19 should not be taken out of school; they are "the seed corn of the Republic and the leaders of tomorrow." Besides, "if you draft Negro boys into the army, give them three good meals a day, a good uniform and let them shoot craps and drink liquor around the barracks for a year, they won't be worth a tinker's damn thereafter...
...Mayor's door opened. The bridegroom's face turned ashen, the bride's fists clenched. M. Doinel was wearing his baggy Buchenwald uniform, black-&-white stripes with a red triangle numbered 78633. Slowly he read the service. . . . "Will you take for your husband. . . . Will you take for your wife. . . ." Slowly they answered...