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  • Perhaps it all came down to her being such a determined flirt, but as a result of her close contacts among the khaki-clad set she knew more about what was really going on than almost anyone on the island.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Perhaps it all came down to her being such a determined flirt, but as a result of her close contacts among the khaki-clad set she knew more about what was really going on than almost anyone on the island.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • The new Luna Park and Scream Zone aren't exactly Six Flags (ride attendants stow your valuables using a sophisticated process known as "hanging your bag on the fence"), but they do offer a facsimile of the suburban amusement park experience: smiling, khaki-clad employees, clean restrooms and a café menu featuring (brace yourself) sushi, chicken with broccoli rabe and burgers with "Berkshire slab bacon."

    An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011

  • The new Luna Park and Scream Zone aren't exactly Six Flags (ride attendants stow your valuables using a sophisticated process known as "hanging your bag on the fence"), but they do offer a facsimile of the suburban amusement park experience: smiling, khaki-clad employees, clean restrooms and a café menu featuring (brace yourself) sushi, chicken with broccoli rabe and burgers with "Berkshire slab bacon."

    An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011

  • But the combination, at one particular point, of sizzling striplights, medieval religious chants and khaki-clad first world war tommies produced a feeling of sensory and aural overload.

    King Lear – review 2011

  • Through its streets—its narrow, winding streets, old and low and dark, carven and quaint,—poured thousands upon thousands of strange feet of khaki-clad foreigners, and the echoes threw back awkward syllables that were never French.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • His record, both as Chancellor and PM, leave him vulnerable to criticism on the subject; but today, Brown has been confronted by a khaki-clad nightmare.

    Brown meets his Waterloo 2010

  • Putting out a daily newspaper requires a mountain of work from a skilled ensemble cast of khaki-clad, coffee-driven, truth-obsessed people who could make more money in other professions.

    Catherine Specter: Charge of the Newspaper Brigade 2010

  • Eventually, the khaki-clad Indian guards faced off against the black-clad Pakistanis.

    Signs of a slow thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations 2010

  • Putting out a daily newspaper requires a mountain of work from a skilled ensemble cast of khaki-clad, coffee-driven, truth-obsessed people who could make more money in other professions.

    Catherine Specter: Charge of the Newspaper Brigade Catherine Specter 2010

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