Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1902, when the late Willie Gocher plunged fully clad into the surf to test an ancient statute that forbade day light bathing as immoral, had there been such a commotion on a Sydney beach...
First step in the development of a tenderfoot Russian athlete is a BGTO badge ("Be Ready for Work & Defense"), issued for skill in running, swimming, skiing-and shooting. Next comes a tougher test for the coveted GTO badge ("Ready for Work & Defense"). A GTO can swim fully clad, run 1.8 miles in twelve minutes -and make parachute jumps...
Traffic in old Lima, never free-flowing, backed up for blocks. Lima's police fought to keep the crowds in hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...
From one of the great open-hearth furnaces poured a molten white stream-steel. The rolling mill clanked out the first structural shapes. A white-clad band struck up the national anthem. The Volta Redonda steel plant (not far from Rio de Janeiro), the most impressive industrial sight in Latin America, was officially in operation. Brazil's dream of industrial self-sufficiency was being realized...
Sargent Kennedy leaned back in his chair and scrutinized the khaki-clad private with deanlike eye. Watching the minutes of his furlough tick by, the private gave the dean a flshy, enlisted-man's stare--the attentive, ingratiating stare that might go with muddy boots or non-G.I. shoes...