Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
Geronimo! In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt on a ledge, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
...chronicle of the lives of three generations of d'Alverys from World War I to World War II-their loves, hates, ambitions, marital alliances and misalliances, financial crises, the problems of a sugar economy (among them: blight and the OPA), and politics (Huey Long appears in pajama-clad person...
...Lise Meitner, 67, refugee German physicist, pioneer contributor to the atomic bomb, arrived in New York City by plane from England, got a push-&-pull welcome from newsmen and relatives. Black-clad, quiet Dr. Meitner stepped from the plane, saw the crowd, promptly stepped back in again, got hold of herself, finally reemerged. Reporters let go with questions, cameramen with flash bulbs. A spotlight's fuse blew. "I'm so awfully tired," said Dr. Meitner. Relatives bustled her off. Next day she was in at the unveiling of the man-made meson (see SCIENCE). Next stop, after...
...Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg drew long, appraising looks. There were "ohs" and "ahs" for the Chinese, and for the Saudi Arabians in their green robes piped with white. There were a few cheers for Ernest Bevin, more for black-clad Eleanor Roosevelt...