LEAD: It's been many years since old men in threadbare blue uniforms led the march down Main Street.

He rubbed his nose and looked at the two marines, working in their threadbare and tattered uniforms.

Accommodations were austere, with poorly heated rooms, threadbare uniforms, and unvaried meals.

Unwashed, wearing threadbare uniforms that had seen them through years of service, they were also unkempt, untutored and uncultured.

It has been many years since old men in threadbare gray and blue uniforms paraded down the nation's main streets.

It was deserted but for the short, stocky man in the well-pressed but threadbare uniform of a Merchant Air Service captain.

Of all the amenities the Rihannsu had brought with them, she had been most eager to discard the coarse, threadbare uniform for bright civilian clothing.

Then she went off to lunch, leaving me alone with the rusted scythes, band instruments, threadbare military uniforms and tombstone rubbings.

He was wearing naval uniform, the threadbare uniform of a midshipman, its white patches yellow in the sun.

Get out my most threadbare uniform, fray a few of my collars at the edges, and shoot a few holes in my hat.