Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mardi Gras balls all conform to a traditional pattern. They open with a tableau or pageant, followed by a grand march led by a costumed king and queen. Then masked members of the krewe dance with women summoned from the audience. Finally formally clad guests who have been watching from the galleries join in the dancing...
...force of 500 Arabs besieged the Jewish settlement of Yehiam in mountainous country near the Lebanese border. Attacking with mortar and machine-gun fire, the khaki-clad Arabs were held off by Jews fighting from the ruins of an ancient crusaders' castle. A British company of the Middlesex Regiment rushed to Yehiam, drove the invaders back...
Last week, there were fewer ill-clad and unshod in Port-au-Prince, the capital. Peasants walked barefoot down the mountains with shoes in their hands, grumblingly put them on at the city gates. Said one young Haitian: "What an idea, dressing up every day as if it were a holiday! My shoes have been in good condition for five years, but if I have to put them on all the time, I'll wear them...
Lukens Steel Co., going into the booming business of clad metals, earned $8.92, but it sold at only 2% times that figure...
There are no perilous inclines to navigate, no trees or cleverly hidden boulders to dodge, and no budding slat experts to schuss by you asserting their proficiency in a spray of icy powder; just a refreshing surface of water through which to plunge and a dozen scantilly-clad maidens to console you in your athletic short-comings...