Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...
...artist-in-khaki hiked up and down the front lines in Tunisia, and finally sent home a whopper of a story with typewriter instead of pen and ink. Another soldier made 10 action flights out of Chungking and cracked up on his eleventh. On his hospital bed he received his reward: promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...
...William D. Cleary--devout, genial, forceful, soldierly--has headed the Chaplain School since its reactivation at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., thirteen months ago. By virtue of his position he is one of the two chaplains in the Army who exercise command. Irish-born and Paris educated, he first donned khaki as a chaplain in the World War, entered Germany with the Army of Occupation, served two tours in the Philippines, rose with the expanding Armored Force from chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain...
Also donning the khaki is Jack Fisher, better known as first string center for Dick Harlow. Fisher, no mean hand at the hammer throw, leaves for the Air Corps. Jim Wheeler, another member of the mile relay team, is in the ERC, and Saturday will probably be his last meet...
...Navy has drawn up any contracts, and that neither has yet started to choose men to be sent back. This will probably postpone all retraining schemes for at least three months, and it is entirely possible that it will be June or July before the first group of khaki collegians see the green of a campus...