Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman came up the Renown's ladder, the Stars and Stripes was broken out alongside the Union Jack at the mainmast. The bosuns piped shrilly. King George VI, in his uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, stepped forward, gave Harry Truman a hearty handshake, said: "Welcome to my country, Mr. President...
...three brothers died in uniform. Flyer Quentin was killed in World War I; Major Kermit died in Alaska in 1943; Brig. General Theodore Jr., in Normandy...
...Bull" Warren's anathemas was late-comers to his classes; rather would he have a student be absent than come late and interrupt. But one day a man in Navy uniform, carrying a bulky bag of books, did come in late and step- ping over scores of legs, reached the long-empty seat in the middle of the room...
...Senate laboriously wrestled with a job of making history. It was certain that the United Nations Charter would be ratified by a thumping majority, but the air in the green-carpeted chamber was heavy with the importance of the task. Crowds of men and women, many in uniform, came to the galleries, day after day. Some of them expected to hear historic debate. There was none, because the issue had already been settled...
Next day he donned his khaki uniform with its seven stars (for Marshal of France) and one decoration-the gold-and-blue Médaille Militaire, France's highest award for valor. Then he shuffled from his Palais lodging (a 14 ft. by 12 ft. magistrate's cloakroom) to the prisoner's dock in the jampacked chamber...