Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Pentagon planners, the gift seemed magnanimous in the extreme. "You've got a mandate," said an Assistant Secretary of Defense to a group of Air Force generals. "He's given you space." The men in uniform were inclined to argue that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision to let them build a Manned Orbiting Laboratory was hardly as generous as all that. Space, they figure, has belonged to them all along. They have always maintained that it is merely an extension of the atmosphere - a little higher and thinner, to be sure, but a proper place...
...first to last. Vincent Edwards, James Mitchum, Eli Wallach, Peter Fonda and dozens of others pop in and out of the narrative or simply vanish, presumably missing in action. There are no heroes. In one unconvincing scene, a muddled plea for brotherhood, G.I.s gape idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys gun down a puppy. There are looting episodes too. But when Foreman's lads grow misty-eyed over a music box waltz, they prove they are vandals with...
...plan to supply meat substitutes for such dishes as yeal, lamb, stew and ham is based on a policy already in effect in Quincy House, where it has proven economically feasible because that dining hall serves uniform portions of all items...
Hurlburt and Unger indicated yesterday that uniform portions from Central Kitchen serving lines would save enough money there to make such extra features as the substitutes possible within the present budgets...
There have been 256 tetanus deaths in the U.S. this year, and Dr. Christensen argued that almost all of them were avoidable. For proof, he cited the record of the U.S. armed forces in World War II: among 12 million in uniform, there were only 16 confirmed cases of tetanus (with six deaths...