Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipinos spoke the name of General Tomoyuki Yamashita as if it were blasphemous. When peace came and the "Tiger of Malaya" was brought to trial, they crowded the courtroom to stare. As they had expected, he looked like an ogre-a squat, shaven-headed, simian figure in a green uniform. When prosecution witnesses told of the raping, killing and burning which Manila had endured at Japanese hands, many in the audience guessed that the verdict would be quick and harsh...
...Uniform of the Night. The proceedings would throw a legal searchlight on some, but not all, of the dark questions asked by hundreds of next of kin in angry letters to the Navy since the "Indy" was lost. The court-martial should show whether McVay, who was born to Navy tradition (his father is a retired admiral), was justified in steaming on a straight course at only 17 knots, especially as the ship had no submarine detection gear...
...exhibiting supercilious boredom during the reading of the indictment. Hermann Göring, whom most of them tacitly accepted as their "Führer," had also managed to salvage his vastly deceptive joviality (he graciously gave his autograph to a U.S. Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body. The uniform was obviously good for his morale. He wore it proudly, shunning the civvies G.I.s had presented to him with the note: "Dear Hermann, if you lose, please return the suit...
...grand Charlie had doffed his uniform and his general's stars, donned dark blue mufti and become simple M. de Gaulle. Having resigned as Provisional President, he retired from his offices on the rue Saint Dominique to a villa in suburban Neuilly. There he waited for the new Constituent Assembly to call him back to duty...
...effect on quantity production there can be no doubt. Since 1939, recognized Soviet composers have written more than 66 symphonies, 46 operas, 22 ballets, 150 orchestral suites, fantasies and overtures, 40 cantatas, 400 smaller choral works and 150 quartets, quintets and other chamber music. Much of it is pretty uniform in style: restless, intensely energetic music, full of theatrical climaxes and aggressive rhythms, as cannily constructed, and at its worst about as emotionally appealing, as a linotype...