Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers and Chief Petty Officers, the choice is made form the blue service dress with white caps, white service dress, khaki working uniform, and slate gray working uniform if available. When khaki or slate gray is worn, the blouse may be removed indoors. Garrison caps must be the same color as the uniform worn...
...college (University of Chicago), paying for himself almost entirely by odd-jobbery and teaching Eng lish to Scandinavians at a public-school night shift. His food for some months was "one 15? meal a day," and when he won his sheepskin in 1897 his clothes were "too shabby and worn" for him to go up to the platform for it. Newspapers helped to keep him warm in bed - the only period in his life when the Chicago Tribune helped him to sleep...
...maybe they know where we're going, and feel sorry for us! The Business School gave a bang-up dance for the WAVES this past Saturday night. It was very gay with much music, much punch, and much men! It was interesting to note that gray suits are being worn this season--we had almost forgotten! But the boys are a lot more self-conscious about their civilian suits than we are. We know they're doing what they were ordered to do. The most often heard crack of the evening was the one about the boys going...
...Break a Siege. One day in January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt called in Pat Hurley, then a 59-year-old reserve colonel, who had worn his first uniform 40 years before in the Indian Territory militia. The mission he assigned to -Pat was breathtaking: to break the blockade of Bataan from outside, get some food and ammunition to MacArthur's beleaguered soldiers. As a brigadier general, Pat Hurley took some millions of dollars and flew to Australia. There he hired shippers who were willing to take the slim chance. Several ships got through-for every one that made...
They had trouble. Under the necessary 3,000-ton impact, dies broke or spread, forgings cracked. If both the die and the forging stood up, they could expect to run off only about ten gears before the die was worn out. Then they thought of burying the die in solid steel so that it could not stretch, of doing the job in five successive squeezes instead of a single bump...