Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comets. For two hours the hurricane of steel roared and whooshed, the Katushas arching crimson-tailed comets through its center. Then it was noon. The crescendo fell to a deep drumlike rumble. White-clad infantrymen moved out ahead of white-painted tanks, self-propelled guns...
...Apennine Mountains of Italy white-clad Allied patrols probed and pushed at the Nazi lines last week. On skis and snowshoes they fought short, murderous engagements with German patrols, pressed in closer to fight with their fists, fingernails, teeth. Enemy snipers fired at the litter squads carrying in the wounded...
Love and the Inquisition. Pedro was redhaired, blue-eyed, broad-shouldered, hot-tempered, chivalrous, brave, a good swordsman, a bad liar, and a miser when it came to hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power...
...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
...patient lao ping. Said General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current approved rate, each worth a U.S. nickel) were sent every day to the independent newspaper, Ta Rung...