Word: khakied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near Rockford, Ill., he stuffed himself with the astounding food (both cake and grapes at one meal), enrolled for correspondence courses in Russian and Persian, ingratiated himself with his captors, and peddled his medals and handmade souvenirs to accumulate a store of U.S. currency. He dyed a pair of khaki pants blue, and hid them...
...news for Chinese commanders in Korea. Within a month, Eighth Army G.I.s will have a new weapon against "human sea" attacks - the 4½-oz. M14 anti-personnel mine. The M14's vest-pocket size (diameter: 2½ in.; depth: i½ in.) and its inconspicuous color (khaki) will make the laying of invisible minefields quick and easy. Its plastic case safeguards it from discovery by mine detectors. The miniature mine's capacity for destruction is limited-it is unlikely to do serious damage to a vehicle-but Army tests indicate that it has enough power to blow...
...last may, over 450 undergraduates trooped into New Lecture Hall to show how badly they wanted to stay out of the Army. The results of that survey, announced in a preliminary report this fall, show that Harvard men are more allergic to khaki than all but one of ten representative schools in the country. Only fifteen per cent tested here evinced any desire to go into service. The bulk were lukewarm at best, and fully a quarter wanted nothing to do with the armed forces...
Beyond the Call. In Sacramento, after being bothered for four years by a rash which hospitalized him four different times, Staff Sergeant Donald W. Arrington took his pre-discharge physical examination, learned that he is allergic to khaki...
...remaining two months, radio is concentrating on music and drama. NBC is ready with half a dozen musical programs, ranging from an Armed Forces talent show called Stars in Khaki & Blue to the Stan Kenton Concerts, a weekly series of "revolutionary jazz" broadcast from different cities in the U.S. and Canada. CBS, aiming at the beach and auto trade, will broadcast 2½ hours of music, news, weather reports and baseball scores each Sunday afternoon...