Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Israeli soldiers joined their units after traveling either by taxi or by hitchhiking. At midweek, some of the men were still wearing half-civilian clothing. Their khaki shirts and jackets clashed sharply with their more stylish slacks and patterned socks. At villages along the road, groups of teen-agers -some of them Americans visiting Israel-had set up refreshment stands and were offering coffee to the troops...
...skyjackers and an exploding drug traffic. White House officials quickly encouraged the Army to step up its domestic intelligence operations. Within two years, the Army had 25 million "personalities" on file. One of the victims, Adlai Stevenson HI, then Illinois state treasurer, was to call the operation "Kafka in khaki." The dismantling of the Army's internal counterinsurgency department was not begun until 1971, and then only in response to public outcry...
Carter, flaunting a luxuriant red beard and one of his normally outlandish outfits--purple beret, electric blue and yellow sweater, khaki pants with large patches of turquoise, maroon and purple, as well as green poles with orange Day-Glo baskets--slithered through the 550-foot course with the best times for each of the two runs, and defeated runnerup David Dodge of the University of Vermont by over a second. Ben Steele, star of Carter's intercollegiate team, remained off the peak he reached winning EIS championships three weeks ago at Middlebury and finished third. Dodge finished fourth...
...that while waiting for a combat command, Herbert made powerful enemies executing his office of Inspector General. He investigated every scandal right up to its embarrassing conclusions. (One of Herbert's investigations was finally concluded last Wednesday, when the Sergeant Major of the Army pleaded guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army regulations...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of 43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the little red-brick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped would be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...