Word: khaki
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...brown-and-white-spotted Yarkand pony; fierce-eyed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and goateed Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad each came in a ricksha pulled by four runners; tall, bearded Khan Abdul Ghaffar came on his own long legs; Mohamed Ali Jinnah and his Moslem League delegation in an ancient, khaki-colored Humber sedan...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
...rococo Paris Opera House last week had its first command performance for troops since Hitler and friends were entertained there in June 1940. This time the audience was a khaki blend of 2,200 G.I.s, WACs, British Tommies. They got a lecture-demonstration of the mysteries of ballet...
...Boston roster is bulging with big names fresh out of khaki, and the names of Woodrow ("Porky") Dumart, Milt Schmidt and Bobby Bauer lead all the rest. Before they joined the R.C.A.F. three years ago, this trio skated circles around the best defensemen in the league, led the Bruins to three championships in three years. A little rusty, the "Kitchener Kids" (they grew up in Kitchener, Ont.) have not really cut loose so far. Partly responsible is Manager Art Ross, who boasts that he has never had a man go stale on him in 20 years, and now insists...
...Spot. When B.A.U. first opened, officers half-expected their khaki charges to idle away their time on the glamorous Basque beaches. Instead, G.l.s lugged their textbooks to the beach when they went swimming, caroused-if at all-only on weekends...