Catchword: purple

Filed under: English, Military

Part of speech: adj.

Quotation: If you combine the colors of the uniforms of the four services, you come up with the color purple. Thus officers who do joint duty, working on projects that cross service lines, are called purple-suiters.

Article or Document Title:
“Congress gives final approval to Pentagon’s reorganization”

Author:
Charles Stafford

Article, document, publication, web site:
St. Petersburg Times

Date of publication:
Sept. 18, 1986

Page number:
3A

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