Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the somberly clad signers there were two men in military uniform-Generals Sir Brian Robertson and Pierre Koenig, representing the western zones of Germany. Thus Western Germany, economically, at least, rejoined Europe, looked forward to active participation in OEEC. To many Germans this fact seemed to overshadow a possible fracture of Germany as a whole...
...18th century French "educational" cards portrays scenes from distant lands. The American Indian appears as a skin-clad savage, with a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. A portrait of a crocodile provide local color by depicting American Wildlife...
Before 60,000 Romans in the jammed Piazza del Popolo, Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, laid down the new line. Clad in a grey, double-breasted suit, he mounted a flag-draped truck, lashed out in a high-pitched voice against the "tortuous and Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within...
...Hour. Next day, across the Tiber, the white-clad Pope stood on a balcony beneath the brilliant spring sun. Below him lay the immense Piazza di San Pietro and, in its encircling colonnades, a multitude of more than 350,000 people, who overflowed into the adjoining streets and lined the nearby roofs. Overhead swooped two planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This...
...scantily-clad Portia took an unofficial but provocative place yesterday in the Law School picture gallery of distinguished jurists which adorns the walls of Langdell classrooms. One professor, the dean, and the entire student body, by the day's end, were admiring the work of the anonymous creator...