Word: uniformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They've got to be professional. They stake their reputations on it," the former paratrooper and veteran of more than 1500 jumps told me to calm my fears about skydiving. His expertise, khaki uniform and medal of the elite paratrooper corps would be enough to convince even the most timid in our group of a dozen Harvard students of the safety of skydiving. He must be right, I think, they must be professional. As he had said, they stake their livelihood on it, just as you put your life in their hands. After all, this is skydiving, the risks...
...Virginia. A Jewish refugee from Germany who arrived in Brooklyn in 1938, Mayer was an Army corporal in training in Arizona when one of Donovan's recruiters persuaded him to volunteer for something "more exciting." It was. In 1944 he parachuted into Nazi-held Austria, stole a German uniform and posed as a Wehrmacht officer while he monitored enemy troop movements. Laughs Mayer: "I was even promoted." Later, after getting a job in a Messerschmitt factory to spy on the development of German jet fighters, he was caught and tortured by the Gestapo. He managed to escape...
...sculptor, maker of happenings, guru and political fantasist-is without doubt the most influential artist in Europe. At 58, he is also one of the few genuine art world stars: the gaunt face, the felt hat that never comes off in public and the fishing jacket make up a uniform as immediately recognizable to his fans as Al Capone's fedora or Picasso's monkey mask. He even has a retinue of attendants, attired in cute red jumpsuits. For some years he has been one of the chief culture heroes in Germany, particularly in Düsseldorf, where...
...recent salary moderation has been far from uniform, and some yawning disparities have appeared. Sibson & Co., a New Jersey management consultant firm, calculates that the compensation of top business executives has increased by 14.8% this year with the help of salary bonuses often reaching 20%. Among wage earners, the hourly pay of union employees grew by only 8.3%, while that of nonunion workers edged upward just 7.2%. In other categories, the Labor Department reports that the earnings of an attorney rose by 8.9% on average; that was less than his stenographer's 12% increase but well above his file...
...students knew how to behave. The 54 women of Briggs Hall dined together at specific hours, recited grace before meals, and were served by maids in uniform. Although North House could not be called a sorority, Trilling says, "we knew everyone. Everyone, in the very least, was interesting. We all had something to say to one another. And no one was lonely outside of the usual adolescent schmerz...