Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans had come back. Filipinos; ran excitedly through the shellfire laughing, crying, cheering to be inside the U.S. lines. When U.S. troops marched into the streets of Tacloban, women in bright dresses crowded every window and doorway ; old men sprang to exaggerated attention to salute every U.S. uniform; toddlers had somewhere learned to make the "V" sign with their fingers...
...with bulletproof windows that the Soviet Government had placed at Winston Churchill's disposal during his Moscow visit. Other U.S.-made limousines brought 38 other guests. They were bound to Spiridonovka House for a four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...
...Russian theater now, as there were in the '20s, but the most carefully experimental is Mossoviet. The pet theory of its director, Yuri Zavadski, is that decor usually gets in the way of actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses pageantry and theatricality. Finally, the Red Army Theater has a broad base of popularity. This is, accordingly, the lightest, gayest and noisiest of Russian theaters...
Then, figuratively, he took off his Commander in Chief hat and put on the old campaign hat he really loves. Tom Dewey had charged that the Administration planned to keep the boys in uniform because the New Deal is "afraid of the peace." By now, said Candidate Roosevelt, the Murray-George bill, the statements by OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes and the War Department should have proved the falseness of this charge. "It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale...
Clothing. "Zoot" suits - the green-and-brown camouflaged apparitions worn early in the war - have been discarded by the Army (marines still wear them). Nowadays soldiers wear a two-piece jungle uniform made of green herringbone twill. Because medics insist, it is thick enough to keep out mosquitoes and leeches; because chemical-warfare officers insist, it is gasproofed. Result: a hot, heavy uniform which makes men sweat like stokers, fails to dry out overnight, often fails to give its alleged protection because men simply cannot abide being smothered while fighting for their lives...