Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news reached France shortly after Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose secret plan to be in Paris on the 26th anniversary of Armistice Day had leaked to all & sundry. But the Prime Minister brushed aside fears for his life. Dressed in an Air Marshal's blue uniform, he rode with General Charles de Gaulle through shouting crowds, laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's monument, bowed in silence at Marshal Foch's tomb, made a speech (in original Churchill French) to the shouting Parisians. High point: "We have had differences in the recent troubled years...
Manned by both Navy and civilian students. "Reveille in Swingtime" will include official announcements in a "Navy Bulletin of the Air" which will be heard at 0645 and will consist of day-to-day orders such as uniform of the day and other special messages at the discretion of the Unit officers...
...hearty eater. Yet he can still get into his World War I major's uniform. His measurements: 5 ft., 10 in.; 167 Ibs.; 33-in. waist...
Letter from Home. In the Grotto, where the Nudist Colony had sported during the Exposition, men sat around working with plexiglass and leather, boisterously joking. A Catholic chapel has been built in the basement of the old anthropological museum. There a boy in Navy uniform knelt at a golden altar, his new artificial leg stuck out behind him at an awkward angle. In a smoke-filled billiard room in the old California Tower Building a marine with a black patch over one eye cocked his head back so he could use his good left eye for sighting...
Wearing an immaculate uniform and mirror-shined boots, stiff, grey Colonel Gerhardt Wilck approached the commander of the U.S. attacking party - a 21 -year-old lieutenant. The young American took the elderly German to U.S. headquarters...