Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear, Enmity. Children laughed and waved. Their parents closed their doors or hid in the corrugated iron shacks that sheltered the bombed-out. Nubile Japanese girls scampered for cover as U.S. troops approached. And civilians in the streets of Tokyo-the men wearing random bits of army uniform, the women in baggy dark trousers and white blouses-stared at the invaders with unconcealed hostility...
...overrating this "overseas" stuff. A uniform and a Government-sponsored boat ride won't necessarily make a good husband out of a poor one. There are bad husbands overseas as well as good ones. No, the kinds of wives the men left behind are of their own making...
Peace on earth was two weeks old, but in the never-never land of comic strips-prepared weeks in advance-the war went on. Last week syndicated artists, caught with their paints down, struggled for quick and graceful ways to get their heroes out of uniform...
Urologist Young was born in San Antonio, son of a Confederate general so unreconstructed that he refused to let his son go to West Point and wear a ''Yankee uniform." After a brief go at journalism, the would-be soldier studied medicine at the University of Virginia, then went back home to practice...
Wearing a simple khaki uniform, no decorations, Chiang Kai-shek sat com posed and erect before the microphone...