Word: khaki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard will rock 'em in new uniforms the conventional khaki whipcord pants replace the black satins the Crimson wore last year; home jerseys will be crimson with white numerals, white jerseys with crimson arm hands and numerals will be used at Princeton; head-gears crimson with a white stripe running the length of the helmet...
Harvard will rock 'em in new uniforms--the conventional khaki whipcord pants replace the black satins the Crimson were last year; home jerseys will be crimson with white numerals, white jerseys with crimson arm bands and numerals will be used at Princeton; head-gears are crimson with a white stripe running the length of the helmet...
...Saturday Leopold flew back to Belgium in a military transport plane escorted by eight Gloster jet fighters. He brought with him his two sons, 19-year-old Prince Baudouin and 16-year-old Albert, but he had left his wife, the beautiful Mary Liliane, in Switzerland. He wore the khaki uniform of a lieutenant general of the Belgian army. As he stepped out of the plane at Evere airport near Brussels at 7:20 a.m., he stood rigidly at attention while a band played the Belgian national anthem, La Brabanqonne...
...could estimate just how many doctors would have to change their white coats for khaki shirts, or how soon, but last week the appeals for volunteers were going out. To 3,000 first lieutenants and captains in the Army Medical Corps Reserve, Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss wrote: "We . . . have an immediate and distressing need for 354 physicians in the age and grade group which you represent. This . . . must be met and met promptly...
After two days in port, the Juneau went on the prowl again. I was aboard when she left the harbor, riding low in the water from the heaviest load of ammunition she had ever carried. As we put off, a 40-man U.S. Marine guard in knife-edge khaki stood at ramrod attention as the Juneau's band blared a salute. Then, as the sun slowly set into purple clouds and dark green mountains, the ship seemed to relax. A cool evening breeze played across her bow and she headed back for "The Little Slot...