Word: khaki
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Since his capture in Afghanistan, Lindh--who has grown a beard down to his chest and covers his shaved head with a khaki skullcap to match his prison jumpsuit--appears to have had a change of heart about the Taliban and claims he was misled about jihad, according to sources close to his case. But although he remains a student of Islam--his daily routine includes reading the Koran and improving his Arabic via a correspondence course--he has little to do with other Muslim inmates. "He thinks that most Muslims are not good Muslims," says an official...
...good times, and for other wazangu—white people, colloquially—as well. With my gin and tonic in hand (the quinine helps to prevent malaria, I’m told), decent tea and coffee at my disposal, even cheeseburgers and kippers, donning khaki and a Panama straw hat, it’s easy to forget myself, history major that I am, and fall into the thinking that it’s 1954, and not decades later. When a visitor in either time caught eye of a black polished sedan surrounded by 20-or-so motorcycles flashing lights...
...Gaza, AK-47s and M-16s are essential elements of this year’s summer fashion collection—along with khaki pants, dark shirts and masks. The men wearing them are constantly marching. Marching is what they do best. They are what remained of this year’s harvest. Plenty of bad crops this year, and very few seeds—almost none. There is infinite despair in the Palestinian territories. Add to that cynicism and disappointment, a few targeted assassinations, a segregation wall, a corrupt leadership, no work, militants demanding pay for your protection, and, finally...
...cakewalk. She will most probably spend her five-month sentence at a minimum-security "prison farm" in Danbury, Conn., just 20 miles from her home in Westport. Like other inmates at the facility, where hotel queen Leona Helmsley served time for tax evasion, Stewart will wear a khaki uniform and black, steel-toed shoes and work 7 1/2 hours a day for about 12¢ an hour. "I'm used to all kinds of hard work," Stewart said. "I'm not afraid whatsoever...
...made up what Omar Bradley called the "thin wet line of khaki that dragged itself ashore" on D-day were the beneficiaries of a long and patient exercise in presidential education and artful diplomacy that sustained their belief in the righteousness of their cause, spared them an even more horrific fate, and gave them the time to do their job with dispatch and dignity. Franklin Roosevelt bought them that time. It was the Russians who largely paid the bill...