Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey, military sedan drew into San Damaso courtyard in Vatican City. Out stepped dapper, grey-haired Edward J. Flynn of The Bronx, fresh from Cairo, Moscow and Yalta. Eight minutes ahead of time, he and dark-clad Myron C. Taylor, Presidential representative at the Vatican, hurried to the private study of Pope Pius...
Five years ago, when the British went in & out of Norway, they were short of overcoats and their other winter equipment was pathetic. Now they are among the best-clad and best-equipped armies in the world, surpassing in some respects (e.g., footgear...
Just as important as these statistics to Miss Mac was the fact that her blue-clad girls had been models of correct, seamanlike behavior before the U.S. public. WAVES might not like their grim hours, the discipline, the hard work, but almost to a woman they were resolved to stick it out without audible griping...
...Saud was a kingly guest. As the destroyer coursed northward through the livid heat of the Red Sea, he sat in his tent, scorning a cabin (and wisely avoiding the ship's low overhead). Mustachioed desert warriors, armed with daggers and clad in brilliant abbayat, roamed the deck. Arab servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet...
...During a pompous colonel's illustrated lecture on aircraft recognition, a soldier slips in a blow-up of a scantily clad girl, converting the lecture into a bedlam of double-entendres ("This model is stripped for action...