Word: khaki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked into the crowded hall where Israel's Council of State met, everybody rose and applauded. Premier Ben-Gurion, in tieless sport shirt, pointedly remained seated. The Promised Land which Weizmann had been spared to see was in a sense not his; the tough men-some in army khaki, some in black rabbinical hats-had little patience with the old man who still talked about "the traditional friendship between the Jewish people and Britain...
...four months Bernadotte flew up & down the Middle East in his Red Cross plane. In his Red Cross uniform (with khaki short trousers) he still looked like a Boy Scout. He was not a brilliant man, but all who met him recognized his sincere desire to bring to others the peace he had always known at home...
...staid khaki pants worn by Harvard football players for generations have now gone the way of such venerable football lore as handlebar mustaches and leather elbow patches...
...solid Crimson helmets of old are joining the khaki pants...
Ninety-eight percent of you will wear dark gray flannel trousers between ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock at night. That is, you will unless a nationally famous fashion authority called General Hershey decides you ought to wear light khaki trousers and a nationally famous health expert called General Hershey feels you ought to wear them starting at six in the morning instead of ten. If that happens, none of my information applies. It's all based on having ninety-eight percent in gray flannels...