While we talked, a crowd of hopeful faces, white shirts, blue ties and red-on-green
epaulet covers surrounded us.
Also, Marines in workaday uniforms, Marines in full dress, spiffy Air Force officers, a Marine with a gold
epaulet and a pile of ribbons on his chest, who carried around a black bag.
I saw the trees coming up to meet us, and when the rotors were about to hit the treetops, I flipped the camera out under my left arm--it was strapped to the left shoulder
epaulet of my Eotac fatigue jacket--and ducked down into crash position, forearms up to shield eyes and head.
But a thigh-pocket here, an
epaulet or sleeve roll-keeper there, perhaps a subtle access fold and you know he's a member of your tribe.
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and t felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any
epaulet I could have worn."
What Nicolas GhesquiE re did with the [padded
epaulet short] flowery dresses three years ago are being repeated now.
In uniform, I'd been keeping it clipped to the
epaulet of the uniform shirt on the non-dominant side.
"I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any
epaulet I could have worn," he said.
Once, racing on a motorbike with a vital despatch, a bullet grazed his forehead and shredded his shoulder
epaulet.
Or he would take apart a necklace and use it as an
epaulet on the shoulder of a jacket so that the coat would be "covered with trinkets and madness." His attire always garnered the desired attention.
Elsewhere in the field, Russia's Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute used the June 1999 Paris Air Show to display a small phased-array-antenna design (designated
Epaulet), intended to act as an interface between Western fire-control radars and Russian air-to-air missiles.
My observations generally agree with those of Muma and Weatherhead (1989) on
epaulet and throat coloration in the red-winged blackbird.
Plateau, a state which prides itself with the
epaulet, 'Home of Peace and Tourism,' and favorite destination for tourists, morphed overnight into the most dreaded tourism destination in Nigeria.
