Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khaki-Clad Knight. The scene in the Khartoum courtroom last August was memorable for more than its drama. It marked the first time that a white mercenary had ever been brought to trial in Africa. Last week the tribunal rendered its verdict: the German-born Steiner, 42, was guilty of aiding the 15-year-old rebellion of black southern Sudanese against the northern Arab government. Steiner was sentenced to death, but President Jaafar Numeiry immediately commuted the sentence to 20 years' imprisonment...
...intrigue on a grand scale, he said. He implicated, in varying degrees, CIA operatives, Peace Corps people, British intelligence, relief organizations, the Roman Catholic Church, Israel, Ethiopia and Uganda. Through his German-speaking Sudanese lawyer, Steiner pleaded that he was not a cold hired killer but a kind of khaki-clad White Knight destined to right the wrongs of black Africa...
...Royal Navy, with flags flying and all hands on deck, steamed out of Singapore harbor under a cover of 50 planes and helicopters. Shortly before, the British had staged their final parade at Kangaw Barracks-Royal Navy sailors in the lead, followed by Royal Marines in desert khaki and pith helmets, Royal Highland Fusiliers in tartan caps, men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery. "It is quite an occasion-an historic occasion," said Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett, the last head of the British Far East Command...
...country pretty much the same way-with impatience, ill-disguised contempt for bungling civilians, and a cultivated air of resentment about having let himself get involved in the whole messy business in the first place When Ayub Khan yielded the presidency to him two years ago, Yahya switched from khaki to dark business suits, which he still wears with obvious discomfort. As if to emphasize his longing for the barracks, he occasionally carries a swagger stick and misses no chance to play the simple, straight-talking soldier...
...Rita Hayworth was no great innovator in 1944 with her alluring shorts. In the late '30s, Yonkers, N.Y., had an ordinance that banned these garments for street wear. A parody of the day went something like this: "She went out ashopping in short khaki pants, the kind that in Yonkers is a criminal offense...