| IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY Inside Iraq's Green Zone Rajiv Chandrasekaran New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 |
Rating: 5.0 High | |||
| ISBN-13 978-1-4000-4487-0 | ||||
| ISBN 1-4000-4487-1 | 320pp. | HC | $25.95 | |
| Page 3: | "The only disruption was the occasional whoomp-whoomp of a low-flying Black Hawk helicopter, a red cross painted on its drab olive underbelly, ferrying casualties to the hospital down the street." |
| Word order: S/B "olive drab" or "olive-drab". Although even this is arguable; it is not wrong, merely unconventional, and may have been chosen for euphony. |
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