beret
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The same logic dictates the "forced march" the hopefuls must undergo -- the final exercise required to earn the paratrooper's beret.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Karl wears the maroon beret and "wings" of the Parachute Regiment.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Sliwa -- once a night manager of a McDonald's restaurant in New York -- made his name with the Guardian Angels subway patrol group, which still sees him routinely sport a red beret.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025
Curtis Sliwa has six cats, wears a red beret and is running to be the next mayor of New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Only one artist is wearing what I consider a French painter's uniform—black beret, a white blouse with billowing sleeves, and a black scarf.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
On both occasions, the now shaven-headed "Pulp Fiction" icon wore fetching French berets, a white one for his award and a black one for the premiere of his semi-autobiographical movie, "Propeller One-Way Night Coach".
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
The EFF, also known locally as the red berets, are known for their signature red overalls worn by party leaders in parliament, meant to symbolise their affinity with South Africa's working class.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
In 2015, many of the youth clubs merged into the Defense Ministry’s Youth Army with military-style uniforms and red berets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
He waded through the crowd in a knot of security guys, several wearing the iconic red berets of Sliwa’s vigilante organization, the Guardian Angels.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025
The back is relatively tranquil, stacks of fedoras and berets arrayed on curved wooden shelves.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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