Word: khaki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built by Russians. There, in the freezing morning, khaki-clad King Mohammed Zahir greeted the President and his party...
...school desegregation decision,* Circuit Judge Sebe Dale, 62, last week empaneled the Pearl River County grand jury, charged the jurors to "go into the jury room like men, do your duty, come out like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...
...started the day by opening the mountain gates for the morning's irrigation. As he edged through the throng toward the paint-flaked schoolhouse, he was besieged by election workers who begged a vote for their candidates. Castro shook his head wordlessly. Behind him, wearing dirt-streaked khaki pants, sweat-stained shirt and heavy shoes, Louie Pacheco, 44, operator of a harvesting machine, broke through the campaign workers with the cheerful promise to vote for everybody. "Hey, Louie!" yelled a friend. "See you pan hana [after work]? Plenty feesh at Kapukamoi!" Replied Louie in pidgin English: "No more...
...climax came when she paid her call on the Federation of British Industries' fair-the purpose of her trip in the first place. Not only were the Portuguese barred and all entrances locked (though the British exhibitors were allowed in), but Margaret was followed about by six burly, khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards. Two days later the British embassy made matters worse by barring the press from a party given aboard a British ocean liner in the harbor. Apparently, said 0 Século acidly, the Portuguese could "circulate freely on the Tagus, which...
...visit to Cuba, Figueres had tried hard to fit into the revolutionary mood. He turned out in a baggy khaki uniform left over from his successful Costa Rican revolution of 1948. He arrived early for the big workers' parade in downtown Havana, sat dutifully on the speakers' stand while the unions marched, did not flinch when a drizzle began and Castro ordered the stand's striped tarpaulin ripped away, saying: "If the people...