Word: tartan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers of his regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; he has been accused of wearing plaid pajamas. His deputy: U.S. Colonel Thomas E. Roderick, onetime executive officer of the U.S. War Department's G-2 in Washington...