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...indaba (discussion). Would not the white men disclose the killing of the giraffe? "Kill them," advised Twaitwai. Tammai and Kiree did. All night, they burned the bodies. Next morning, they took away the white men's bones and clothes as muti (magic medicine) for witchcraft. A torn khaki tunic, dropped by the wayside, led police to Twaitwai, Tammai and Kiree...
...Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...
...armed Chinese can fight as valiantly and skillfully as any other troops. He left his headquarters, flew to a forward base, then by jeep and afoot went back into the familiar Burma jungles. He doffed his three stars at a forward command post, donned dirty puttees and stained khaki, wormed up to forward observation posts to watch his U.S.-trained-and-equipped Chinese troops...
Colonel John K. Howard, commanding officer of all Army Training Schools at Harvard, and Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, addressed more than 1000 khaki-clad trainees at a meeting in Sanders Theatre last Monday night of the members of the ASTP schools north of the Charles...
...siren suit" at Moscow, wore the uniform of an R.A.F. air commodore, usually changed to dinner jacket at night. One evening he appeared as an honorary colonel of the Fourth Hussars, his old regiment. Stalin alternately wore two types of Marshal's uniforms, one in beige khaki, the other in slate-blue with white trouser-stripes...