Word: khaki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest camps where submarine crews breathed the fresh smell of jungles, recreation centers where Navymen played baseball, drank strictly rationed beer. Four Fleet and three Army hospitals could accommodate nearly 10,000 patients, and back & forth along the asphalt highways roll caravans of khaki ambulances with their pitiful loads...
...kilt, it pointed out, must "for anatomical reasons" be different from a man's; it must be longer. The above-the-knee kilt for women was "a travesty of the male attire ... an affront to the Gael." The C.W.A.C. pipers would have to wear regulation drab khaki uniforms-at least until a more decorous, calf-length kilt could be designed...
...observer only; his attendance would not bind the Labor Party to any Big Three decisions. Said Attlee next day in accepting the invitation: "There was never any suggestion that I should go as a mere observer. . . ." The Labor Party scored off the Government in the matter of khaki candidates. A Government (i.e., Conservative) proposal that service candidates be permitted to wear their uniforms at the hustings brought on an electric storm in Parliament (the Conservatives have more officer candidates than the Laborites). Later the Government dropped the proposal. Result: all candidates will be in mufti. Hecklers may wear uniforms...
Senator Tydings, amply supplied with sun helmets and summer khaki, had been expected to stay four weeks. When he suddenly left Manila, rumors flew through the capital that he had ducked out to avoid the sticky political situation developing in the Islands. At home, Senator Tydings said he had come back solely to speed up U.S. aid to the Islands. He had been shocked by their war damage, and was aghast at their economic prostration...
...Army is deployed through Central Europe for peace. If it were not for khaki and helmets, our troops would look like trippers rather than soldiers. What I have seen in Central Europe looks suspiciously like peace between America and Russia...