Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Says his trainer, Dan Florio: "Even his wife can't go upstairs to his room." In his tiny, pink-walled room, equipped only with necessary furniture, a crucifix and a certificate naming him an honorary Fairfield County deputy sheriff, Patterson gets up at 6 a.m. He puts on khaki pants a leather jacket, paratrooper boots and a cream-colored cap, runs from three to five miles before breakfast. He chops wood, skips rope, works for hours on the bags. In the dance-floor ring, he takes out his frustrations on his sparring partners, particularly a pug named Ed Bunyan...
...winning everywhere," declared one insurgent in the khaki uniform of the territorial militia. "We don't give a damn for politics...