Word: khakied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incumbents generally did well. Among the exceptions were three senior Republicans who lost: Virginia's Joel Broyhill, a conservative who blamed his defeat on Watergate, inflation and published "lies" about his extensive real estate transactions; Iowa's William J. Scherle, a more cantankerous conservative, who campaigned in khaki work pants and a farmer's cap but was outorganized in his rural district; and Tennessee's Dan Kuykendall, whose known friendship with Nixon hurt enough to bring on his narrow defeat...
...planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body was dressed in a khaki work shirt and dark cotton work trousers and, according to his wishes, his pallbearers also wore simple work clothes. The other mourners, including his wife and his son Land, wore Hawaiian-style attire...
...group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish snip ers outside. He told of the "Hollywood scene with planes flying in formation and paratroopers dropping all over Nic osia. Our waiters disappeared and came back wearing khaki uniforms. But at least we never had to pay our bills...
...were made to organize the men and distribute an assortment of old weapons (mainly World War II-vintage M-l rifles) and combat boots, many without laces. Almost everyone, strangely, seemed in a holiday mood. "We will eat the Turks!" said one young, grinning, newly mobilized trooper, wearing his khaki U.S. Army shirt and cradling an aged automatic weapon still caked with grease. As we walked along the streets with the troops, an old lady dressed in black crossed herself and shouted to us: "St. George be with...
...sheep were in amateur hands, but the tall, sunburned man in khaki trousers and work boots wielded with alarming efficiency the forked pole that ducked the woolly heads in insecticide...