Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the coroners and hospital trainmen arrived to search for the 24 dead and the 121 injured, scores of shaken wordless, half-clad survivors still wandered aimlessly in the mountain dawn. Nobody knew what had caused the Red Arrow to leave the track. For the moment, Conductor McCormick was too preoccupied with his strange presentiment to care. In the Pullman he had hesitated to enter, a half dozen people had died...
...London bartender pondered a picture of his King clad in shorts and soaking up the equatorial sun on the deck of H.M.S. Vanguard. "The papers say he's keeping in close touch with the situation," said he. "Well, 4,000 miles would be close enough for me, too." But many another Briton, shivering in the grip of the coal crisis, took a kinder view as the papers reported, inch by inch, the royal progress to South Africa...
...Kamikaze uniforms, slashed at Kikunani with fish knives, surrendered after failing to kill him. Later, a "New Masses" spokesman defined the party aim: "To fight the trend of labor, which is a menace to the nation's recovery." He also revealed that the party had eight more Kamikaze-clad vigilantes in its "Special Attack Corps...
...Japan's ancient national sport, in which specially bred-and-fed giants, clad only in jundoshi (breechclouts) and their traditional topknots, grunt and tug interminably, like slow-motion dancing bears. Object:' to force one's opponent down so that some part of his body above the knee touches...
...White House oath-taking ceremony a short time later, the five-star General of the Army laid aside all military regalia. He was clad in civillian clothes, as if to symbolize the peacetime problems he will so different from his wartime tasks...