Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustle and crinoline [a description or] picture of a woman . . . showing her legs naked to the thighs, shoulders bare above the breast, with a scanty midriff covering, would have been libelous," says Wittenberg. "Today, women of the best families .'. . are depicted daily and on Sundays . . . [thus] scantily clad...
...find out what his readers want, Mister Bart occasionally does a bit of pub-crawling. This has resulted in a New Look for Jane. After enduring several cold winters in bra and panties (or less), she has been more modestly clad; Bartholomew, impressed by the Mirror's political weathermaking, thinks her old near-nudeness "no longer seems right in a paper which people are taking seriously...
...clock the police began to arrive. Between 6 and 8, trucks brought 3,000 blue-uniformed agents de ville, armed with revolvers and batons, and khaki-clad Gardes Mobiles in steel helmets, carrying rifles. Nearby subway stations were closed and guarded by groups of cops from the Service d'Ordre, the dreaded riot squad of the Prefecture of Police; under their capes they hid Tommy guns...
...difficult thing for the Navajos to understand. The U.S. had had its chance to kill them after their surrender in 1864. Blue-clad, tobacco-chewing U.S. cavalrymen had rounded them up, marched them like cattle 300 miles from Arizona Territory to New Mexico's Fort Sumner, kept them prisoners for four years. But when the Navajos agreed to peace "from this day forward," they had been freed and helped to start a new life...
...highly unreliable report stemming from Amherst said bath towel-clad girls had been seen knocking on the doors of the Lord Jeffs' fraternity houses...