Word: khakies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PAGE. LAST NIGHT THE D.O.C.'S AIR WAVES WERE LAVISH BUT SINCERE IN THEIR PRAISE OF TIME'S [AUG. 10] CLASSIC WORD PICTURE ON LIEUT. GENERAL ANDREW G. MCNAUGHTON OF THE CANADIANS. I BELIEVE, AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS LIKE ME, THAT IF CANADA'S SCIENTIST IN KHAKI WERE GIVEN HALF THE FIGHTING CHANCE HE AND HIS CANADIANS DESERVE HIS BERLIN-POINTED DAGGER WOULD BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO STRIKE HARA-KIRI AT THE BELLY BUTTONS OF HITLER'S BARBARIANS. . . . I BELIEVE THAT FOR A LONG TIME TO COME YOUR CANADIAN READERS WILL REMEMBER TIME'S CLEAR...
...crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women & children who had fled from Norway; Norwegian soldiers and sailors; women in Auxiliary Service khaki. Said the King: "Today the home front in Norway is united like a strong wall. . . . All Norwegians are thankful for the courage of the people who will not yield to Nazi demands...
Honors for pitching what nearly proved to be the first victory in three starts, went largely to Jim Phelan, who had the boys in khaki guessing for nine innings when the total collapse of the Harvard when the total collapse of the Harvard infield ended the Crimson defense...
Scientist in Khaki. McNaughton is both a scientist and a soldier, and many Canadians today consider him their leading technician, patriot and planner. He is in this respect a rare citizen of his country and his time, a soldier whose sense of life and democracy is formed and rounded, a man of learning and conscience who knows for what he fights...
Mary Churchill, 19, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Churchill, got promoted to sergeant in the khaki-covered Auxiliary Territorial Service, went into action with her gun-predictor team against Nazi bombers over London. She also went to a dance in a London suburb. There she met U.S. Private and ex-Truckdriver Bill