Word: khakies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorktown went down the lines to hold life rafts against the ship's side. The wounded were lowered on wire stretchers. Gradually the groups of khaki and blue-clad men along the rails thinned. Knots of men lingered, talking, reluctant to leave...
...film opens with semi-travelogue shots of the serene little coral reef that is Midway, of the gulls, gonies and Marines that live there, passes on to the alarm from the lazing patrol planes at sea, watches the huge khaki Flying Fortresses trundle heavily off the runways, the men moving with the deceptive leisure of Americans-and then come the Japs...
Janie ought to be more fun than it is. It has some amusing lines, some lively moments. It brings a timely touch of khaki to the timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...
...Army squad, culled from the 1,500 recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
...mainland in the holds of returning supply and ammunition ships. Tourism was the third industry. Today tourists wear dungarees, live in places like Red Hill, a huge defense camp, are named Never Sweat Harry and Kalamazoo Joe. They spend as freely as the other latter-day tourists in starched khaki and whites...