Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure I was in no position to meet my Maker. My prayers were most earnest. I asked Corporal Dorfman (this was his first flight) whether he was saying his prayers and he said he had been praying for two hours. He asked me to write something on his khaki trousers. We had written on all our trousers phone instructions to follow when we landed, and I wrote the only thing that came into my head, which was: 'God bless Corporal Dorfman on this great adventure.' I never saw a fellow as scared or as well controlled...
...would be Britain's third khaki election since the turn of the century. Both of the others (during the Boer War and after World War I) gave convincing majorities for the government in power. With Churchill at their head, the Tories hoped that the July vote would be a pro-Tory deluge...
...glimpse of the classroom work of the GI Japanese student furnishes the best idea of Harvard's "optimum method." Speaking in Japanese, a native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...
...orchestra was as colorful as the audience. Four American soldiers in khaki, an Australian lieutenant, a native boy and five young girls filled the chairs of some of the Society's 28 missing musicians who had been killed by the Japs or were still fighting as guerrillas in the mountains...
Dirt and Starvation. Like her three sisters (one, Eleanor, used to be Warden of Vassar), tall, vigorous Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata. The British did not like skirts on this job. So she set off for ruined Sperkheios Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people...