Word: khakis
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London's Sunday Express reported that King George VI had a new outdoor item in his wardrobe: an electrically heated waistcoat, made of khaki silk, ribbed with wires which feed from a pocket battery...
...eyed a khaki suit with loathing; He missed the medieval grace
...soldier: "Up there it is cold and everyone is tired. Voila! One sees Mile. Pepita. She is as cold and as tired as anyone else, but still smiling." Pepita's uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...
...district through the eye-slit in the armor. In Kuala Lumpur, Lyttelton transferred to the bullet-proof automobile which had been brought from England, too late, for assassinated High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (TIME, Oct. 15). At Negri Sembilan he was presented with the red-starred khaki cap of a Communist shot five days before...
...G.I.s from every branch of the service -paratroopers, artillerymen, medics, engineers-roamed the streets and filled the gambling palaces. The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood. Then the planes stopped coming in, the khaki-clad Army abruptly vanished. Out on the desert, 65 miles away, 5.000 hand-picked troops were getting their final briefing before Exercise Desert Rock-the G.I.'s introduction to atomic warfare...