Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passengers boarding the Pennsylvania Limited at Washington, D.C. one day last week peered curiously at the 16 prisoners of war in the private car at the end of the train. They were Germans-mostly veterans of the ill-fated Afrika Korps; they looked smug and well-fed in their khaki uniforms stenciled with large P.W.s. Three U.S. Army noncoms watched over them...
...Theater Wing), will soon round out a six-month European tour. After 77 Italian performances in 78 days, and 60 more in France, The Barretts was shivering in Paris last week. Oil burners were hidden around the stage; Actress Cornell was draped in a lace centerpiece to hide her khaki-underwear neckline...
...Pearl Harbor, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a fifth miniature star on his khaki shirt collar...
...battle zones last week, some U.S. Catholic chaplains offered outdoor Masses in strange garb: khaki vestments tinted by camouflage experts. Altar cloths were also camouflaged. Reason for the change, effected by New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S. Armed Services: the traditional white and brightly colored vestments draw fire from enemy planes...
...five minutes De Gaulle kept them waiting. Then, muffled in a fur-lined khaki greatcoat and red cap, he detrained, saluted, shook hands with beaming Commissar Molotov. While Soviet newsphotographers cranked their cameras, General de Gaulle spoke into a microphone: "On behalf of the people of France, I pay homage to the gallant people of the Soviet Union." Then, his long nose and ears blue with cold, he sped to the Foreign Office's guest house...