Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pall was cast over a considerable portion of the class which arrived clad in Khaki when the categorical imperative was delivered decreeing the wearing of the gray. Most of this suffering minority would prefer that the warships be painted light brown...
Through the streets milled the crowds of a holiday eve: men & women in khaki and blue, red-coated Mounties. Everywhere bands tested their brass throats; the crowds sang marching songs. Across the Ottawa River, in the little manufacturing city of Hull, the drab factories were decked in bunting. And out at Rideau Hall, where the Governor General of Canada lives, workmen raced their mowing machines across the wide lawns...
...oven-hot flatlands of southwest Texas last week traveled some 90 U.S. professional men to listen to learned lectures, to watch exhibitions of technique, to talk shop. They looked like any other group of scientists or educators, except that they wore khaki. In a sense they were educators: The deans and professors of the science of aerial warfare. Their profession: killing Japs and Nazis on the wing. Their special field: the high and delicate art of fixed gunnery, practiced in fighter planes while moving several hundred miles an hour...
...Khaki windbreaker buttoned crookedly, white cloth hat drooped around his ears, the Old Fisherman was all grins as he rode back to his special train at Birch Island Station,- Ontario, in an Army jeep. He spread out his palms in the classic fisherman's gesture, shortened the distance between them, leaned back his head and laughed...
...hear the retiring Viceroy's farewell address last week, India's Central Legislature met in gay saris, bright turbans, khaki. Tall, unbending Lord Linlithgow spoke for an hour and a quarter. Said he: "Indian public men without delay should start to get together. . . . There is nothing to stop India's leaders from considering and devising an alternative [to the Cripps plan] or from trying by private negotiation with other parties in the country to secure their support for any such alternative...