Word: khakies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bataan the correspondents, now in khaki, live with the troops, share their foxhole existence in everything but firing guns and flying planes. They are allowed to visit any front or headquarters they please, though they time their movements with some regard for the disposition of field kitchens. A.P.'s Clark Lee has even gone on night patrols...
...grey, rusty transport edged with khaki ruffling hitched silently toward the wharf. Ashore, British officers waited nervously for uncouth antics in the Aussie manner...
...bullets. Eager lady volunteers turned up in all kinds of unlikely spots. In Boston, militant women practiced firefighting, had firemen worried over the possibility of their turning up at a fire, to get tangled in hoses. Members of the Women's Ambulance & Defense Corps of Los Angeles, in khaki suits with Sam Browne belts, appeared at the sheriff's office on the night of Dec. 7, saluted smartly, announced to the startled sheriff that they were reporting for duty. (The sheriff sent them home...
They also made Aniline's wheels go round. Already harried by Government prying, Aniline protested that now its actual operations would be hampered. Those operations include much vital war work: 90% of the khaki dye for U.S. uniforms, Agfa Ansco films for Army & Navy, Ozalid blueprint paper & apparatus for many a defense plant...
...farmer chooses to sell his pretty daughter to a visiting purchasing agent. And, having seen her off for the factory--or the red-light district, where she will have the honor of entertaining knights in khaki or tycoons in kimonos until she dies of syphilis or t.b.--he sighs with relief as he goes to cash the check which will repay a large part of his debt...