Word: khaki
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They could see him in old khaki pants and shirt and a battered campaign hat, leading his company of 117 men & women up a single-file jungle path (see cut). They could see him sitting on a log repairing his tommy-gun with expert fingers-cigaret between his lips, his big American feet dangling awkwardly from skinny shanks, hat tilted back...
...lapels, reviewed her charges for the first time last week. Said she: "Military tradition has given way to a pressing need and you are the first women to serve as an auxiliary force with the United States Army. Never forget it. You have taken off silk and put on khaki. And all for essentially the same reason-you have a debt and a date. A debt to democracy, a date with destiny...
...over England this week American doughboys looked in the wrong direction for traffic. Tall Americans stooped in the low-ceilinged Rose and Crowns, Red Lions, Crown and Anchors, Bull and Bushes. Firm-handed, fast-driving khaki-clad chauffeurs in khaki-painted jeeps, trucks, station wagons and staff cars, roller-coasted around the sharply winding British roads...
Some of the pilots, some of the mechanics, radiomen and other groundmen who made up the Group donned the khaki with winged insignia of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Some were already headed home. For some of these, the end had not been altogether pleasant. General Chennault at first had not looked kindly on their going, although he later relented. Two-thirds of the A.V.G.'s pilots had come out of the U.S. Navy, and they did not relish going into the Army any more than the Navy liked the Army's bid for them. But for those...
Supplanted by the men in khaki of the Navy, all members of the Class of '46 will congregate in Lowell House Dining Hall tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock instead of the usual Union Dining Hall for their traditional reception by President Conant and other dignitaries. New transfer students are also invited...