Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India and Burma the young, amiable Emir displayed his sacred person freely to his grateful subjects. Some of his fighting men, overcome by awe, knelt before him to be blessed. Others begged to touch the hem of his robe or (when he wore a uniform) the cuffs of his well-creased trousers. Six Katsinans trekked four days & nights through the jungle to glimpse the red-fezzed head of their Emir. Sergeant Gombo Gombe ("Mr. Five by Five"), fattest front-line fighter in Burma, stripped to the waist to get his rifle immaculate enough to fire a royal salute...
...Klux Klanism, and worse. . . . No conscious fascist could have phrased it better." At week's end Mowrer had not chosen to reply in print. Said he: "Of course I could go down and talk it out with Thackrey, but my tailor hasn't got my Ku Klux uniform ready...
Protocol called for tails, black vests and white ties. But the Embassy staff-21 strong-were tailless, so there was a compromise on dark suits. Pat Hurley wore his beribboned, bemedaled, two-star uniform. At 9 a.m. the staff ran through a dress rehearsal. By n o'clock all hands had gathered at the curly-roofed headquarters building of Chiang's Government...
...long hall stood the Generalissimo in uniform. T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, who usually wears a business suit, wore a Chinese gown. Other Chinese dignitaries flanked them. Two abreast, with Pat Hurley in the van, the Americans advanced toward the hall. At the entrance they bowed. Halfway down the hall they bowed again. Then they advanced 20 feet to the Generalissimo, bowed a third time...
...late at night. In the austere conference room of the British military headquarters in Athens stood four dejected Greeks. Three were dressed in ragged civilian clothes. The fourth wore the dirt-stained uniform of the guerrilla forces (which included a turtleneck sweater). All were haggard and unshaven. They were the delegates of the ELAS Central Committee. No one spoke...