Sentence examples for colored soldiers from inspiring English sources
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When he tried to sign up for the Army's K-9 Corps, his commander told him, "They aren't taking any colored soldiers".
"They named the colored soldiers!" Burgundy Street (accent on the second syllable) starts at Canal Street and runs the length of the French Quarter.
I pulled his sleeve around to the back, where the colored soldiers are listed, pointed upward, and waited for the scowl.
By Robert McLaughlin The New Yorker, June 17 , 1944P. 27 Four colored soldiers having a short lay-over in a small Southern town.
"Colored and white ladies and gentlemen left the city of Philadelphia in carriages, hacks, omnibuses and cars, for the camp of the colored soldiers to see them drill, and to see a flag hoisted," a newspaper reported in 1863.
The colored soldier has a gentler touch.
When in 1945 an African-American serviceman danced with a white hostess at the city's white USO, he was told that is "was no place for a colored soldier, and that he should go to the Negro Canteen".
Privately he wrote of African American soldiers: "Individually they were good soldiers, but I expressed my belief at the time, and have never found the necessity of changing it, that a colored soldier cannot think fast enough to fight in armor".
Glance at a crowd of people from a great enough distance and they'll cease to even look human, their particular parts fading out of focus until the pack resembles a uniform army of flesh-colored toy soldiers. .
By contrast, next to it is a work of glassy transparency by the Flemish follower of Caravaggio Dirck van Baburen, a complicated, brightly colored picture of soldiers playing backgammon.
