Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ludicrous to assume that when Ted Curtis' report said that the Federal Aviation Agency should be run by a civilian it meant the first general who could get his uniform off. Your article was good, well written and obviously very well researched. But I sometimes get the feeling that Quesada thinks the cone of silence is the lull after a general gives an order...
...famed Kikuyu leader. As a city official, Tom Mboya noted bitterly, his job paid $30 a month for work that brought white inspectors $140, and the whites drove official cars and wore street suits, while Tom was expected to go about his duties on a bicycle and dressed in uniform...
...Khrushchev is tapping it to relieve the tight manpower shortage created by his seven-year plan. Last January, jauntily telling the world that Russia's missile lead was so great it could afford to disarm, Khrushchev announced a 1,200,000 cut in the number of men in uniform. Last week his Defense Minister, in a major policy statement, hinted at a further release of military manpower to farms and factories. "Our government and the party Central Committee," wrote Marshal Rodion Malinovsky in Pravda, "are now thinking over and studying the question of eventually shifting over our armed forces...
...those gentlemanly days. Indeed, a man of means could recruit his own in a saloon and make himself colonel. Private Post picked the 71st Infantry, a regiment heavily manned with flask-toting, city-bred New Yorkers. No one needed to be caught alive or dead in olive drab; the uniform was a brilliant cerulean blue with a flashy stripe down the trouser leg. The training grounds were the fields of Hempstead, Long Island. The close-order drill came from Gettysburg and Waterloo, and the chow seemed almost as old. Writes Post...
...still nameless, was scarcely 24 hours old before his mother's subjects began deciding on his future. He stands second in line to the throne after Prince Charles. Would he have to follow the dreary tradition of most royal sons, growing up in uniform only to lead a life of ceremonial drudgery? "A royal prince," suggested the London Express, "who was a doctor or a nuclear physicist or an engineer-that would be a break with tradition...