Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discipline: Troops will wear olive drab, U.S.-style uniforms, with Eisenhower jackets, helmets similar to the U.S.'s, and pants tucked into laced boots. No more goose-step. Salutes only for generals, and for the commanding officer and top sergeant on day's first encounter. Off duty, civilian clothes allowed. "This will be a citizens' army," promises World War II Draftee Blank...
Thrill-thriving U.S. radio commentators and newspaper columnists could hardly conceal their chagrin last week at the course of the coldly efficient, seemingly drab censure hearings against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. But the hard fact was-and nobody knew it better than McCarthy-that the special committee headed by Utah's Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins was acting as the finally awakened conscience of the U.S. Senate...
Compared to Prophet Jones himself, his custom-built beige Cadillac seemed drab and commonplace. Detroit's James F. Jones. Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, the Dominion of God. Inc., was wearing a $235 light brown suit, yellow checked vest, yellow shoes, red socks and red tie. Even more arresting were his gold-handled cane, the topaz earring on his left ear. the diamond, ruby and topaz rings on his left hand, the diamond and topaz bracelets and heavy gold chain on his left wrist. Prophet Jones always wears his jewelry on the left. He explains...
...general spent his first night of freedom on a U.S. landing craft moored in the Red River. He stripped off his drab prison clothes, threw them into the water, donned a fresh uniform with the jaunty red cap of the Moroccan spahis. Next day he sailed to Hanoi and was greeted on the dock by General René Cogny, wartime commander in the northern theater, who is still in command pending the Communist takeover. As he embraced Cogny, De Castries burst into tears. "Excuse me," he said. "It's foolish, but I cannot control my emotion." Then Cogny, also...
...John Ridley, who last visited Shanghai in 1946, three years before the Communists took over: "All gaiety and charm have disappeared . . . There is no laughter in the streets as there used to be, and strangers are not now greeted with smiles and shouts in the villages. Instead, drab, dull apathy has settled over everyone and horrible uniformity is the order...