Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patission Street. The struggle went on all week. British troops and the British-trained Mountain Brigade methodically cleaned up street after street only to have ELAS riflemen, clad in civilian clothes, infiltrate behind them. At week's end the British-held area was still only an island in a hostile...
...beauteous and romantic Shakespearienne of the 18905 of the world-known dramatic team, Sothern (E.H.) & Marlowe, appeared publicly for the second time since her husband's death (1933), to open an exhibit of scripts, promptbooks, costumes, other souvenirs,* at the Museum of the City of New York. Clad in black, wearing a black velvet hat modeled after the one she wore as Portia in an 1887 production of The Merchant of Venice, Miss Marlowe read a poem (in a strong, full, ringing contralto) written by her husband, replied, when asked what she thought-of the modern theater, "I wonder...
Blood in Athens. It was a sun-drenched Sunday. But British Tommies and grey-clad Greek police rimmed Athens' Constitution Square. Premier George Papandreou had forbidden a demonstration by the Communist-controlled EAM. Presently the sound of thousands of people marching and chanting swelled and ebbed like surf. The marchers broke a police cordon. They carried flags of Russia, Greece, Britain, the U.S. Men, women & children surged toward Government Palace. Police Chief Paunias Ebert ordered: "Fire...
...most of the hidden German soldiers. Partisan boys drilled in streets over which stretched banners emblazoned with new Yugoslavia's red star, Russia's hammer & sickle. Big pictures of Russia's Stalin, Yugoslavia's Tito stared side by side from every shop window. The grey-clad troops of the Red Army rolled ceaselessly toward the Hungarian front in U.S. Lend-Lease trucks. Overhead, Russian Stormoviks and Yaks roared...
Cheyenne found out about Nubbins when his father went looking for a Christmas tree. Within a week's time, newspaper readers across the land were looking at pictures of the thin, flannel-clad child with solemn brown eyes. Then the gifts began to pour...