Word: khaki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worn by gentlemen at the ceremony, wedding guests were swamping famed Moss Bros. with orders for rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear in all their full-dress glory: scarlet and blue uniforms with pipe-clayed breeches and flashing cuirasses...
...clock the police began to arrive. Between 6 and 8, trucks brought 3,000 blue-uniformed agents de ville, armed with revolvers and batons, and khaki-clad Gardes Mobiles in steel helmets, carrying rifles. Nearby subway stations were closed and guarded by groups of cops from the Service d'Ordre, the dreaded riot squad of the Prefecture of Police; under their capes they hid Tommy guns...
...from South St. Paul to Lake Michigan's Sturgeon Bay, with his wife, Esther, his children, Glen, u, and Kathleen, 5, and the family dog, Duke. At the end of the six-hour, 321-mile trip, he lugged suitcases into a small rented cottage, changed into faded Navy khaki and settled down for two weeks of loafing, swimming, reading and old-fashioned porch-sitting...
...straddled by gunfire but it suffered little damage. He saw more action after that-many an officer was comforted to see him on the bridge of the Admiral's flagship during the vicious and decisive Battles of the Philippine Sea. Sailormen took to the custom of patting his khaki shirt, just for luck...
...defendant wore a brilliant red and yellow checked shirt, khaki riding breeches and knee-high, shining black boots. A long mane flowed down his back from the heights of his domed head; a vast, bushy beard descended from his chin to his chest. He entered the tiny courtroom in Paris' august Palais de Justice reclining on a stretcher...