All week long, cadets wearing perfectly pressed dress grays, speaking in detached monotones and beginning their answers with "sir" or "ma'am," testified in explicit anatomical language and, in one cadet's case, even rendered a stick-figure drawing to show the positions of two bodies in bed.

Cadets, who seemed to sparkle in the full dress grays over white, are not supposed to discuss politics.

Lieutenant Bone, squeaky-clean, polished, and striking in her best velvet dress greys, exited her shuttle and approached the remnant of men left at the foot of the larger shuttle's ramp.

They wore Grateful Dead shirts instead of dress grays, they went under cover of dark, and they used bolt cutters in case the enemy had bothered to lock the gate.

He nodded at Commander Glyncho, who wore dress grays, as he usually did.

He fingered the linked diamonds on the dress grays.

Daniel appeared at the door, wearing his dress grays just as his hosts were.

For Betts, Taley, and the midshipmen, that meant dress grays.

She nodded to Daniel as she followed the midshipmen down the companionway; a thin, stiff-looking woman in dress grays.

Jefferson Pinkard inspected his dress grays in the mirror.