Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were a strangely assorted crew. India's press representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped off a train at Paddington station...
...from this morass of penny-pinching and inadequacy one new vista has at last opened. Though the University has relaxed its iron-clad rule only slightly, one department now at least partly shares the spotlight of advance information that General Education once held all by itself. Now the undergraduate with an eye towards dabbling a bit in Social Relations, the concentrator looking for now courses to conquer, and the prospective graduate student all have some sort of concrete preview of what lies behind those 32 brief listings in the back of the catalogue. Perhaps now some of the hasty shuffling...
Little mishaps and irreverent remarks continued, but grew less frequent as the festivities narrowed toward the ceremony itself. The crowd began to gather early the night before in favored places near Buckingham Palace and Parliament Square. The crowd was good-natured, a bit rowdy, ill-clad and ill-fed. And, more than in other times, avid for the show that would lift it, not by illusion but by legitimate right, into a symbolic reminder of its own worth. As they waited, chaff flew. When black smoke poured from the palace chimney, a wit said: "Blimey, now they've gone...
...iron-clad Yale game rule burdens the coaching staffs in the key game of the year with the knowledge that they must play all the men who rate awards. "If the score had been 21 to 21," Dick Harlow said after the last Yale game, "I'm afraid a lot of kids wouldn't have gotten their letters." Injured men patently cannot play in a game, Yale or otherwise, and there have been cases in the past where a man got an early season broken leg instead...
Early in the evening a crimson-clad baud flooded a segment of New Haven with flyers emblazoned with President Conant's picture and advocating "Bryant Wintergreen for President." Few people could guess immediately whether this prauk originated in Cambridge or at Yale, so the total offset was not startling...