Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Frederick Duncalf, faculty committee head, "The fat's in the fire now." "It's hell," agreed alumni spokesman Robert Bobbitt. On the Texas campus, 6,000 irate students promptly cut classes, shouldered banners proclaiming NO CLASSES TILL RAINEY; RATS AND REGENTS LEAVE A SINKING SHIP. Dark-clad and solemn, they marched in a parade twelve blocks long to plant in the Capitol rotunda a crepe-draped coffin labeled "Academic Freedom...
...jampacked the Cour d'Assises, in Paris' Palais de Justice, where Marie Antoinette had heard her death sentence pronounced. Among them was many a chic, smartly-gowned woman. Over the sea of heads few could see more than the naked statues looming behind the scarlet-and-ermine-clad judge, or catch more than brief glimpses of the begowned prosecutors, defense counsel and defendants. But all listened in a silence unusual in French courtrooms...
...needed it," and somehow it came to her now. In 1922, with $1,250,000 donated by her followers, she built the huge (5,300 seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes, her hair burnished gold in the glare of the arc lights, a Bible under one arm and a bunch of red roses in the other, she exhorted the Angelenos to come and be saved...
...been saved thus far from a typhus epidemic by being relatively louse-free, especially in the South, where clothing is light. To date, moreover, the disease has been confined to the South. But if it traveled north it might enter its dangerous phase among warmly clad slum dwellers who get lousy in winter. And such northward travel might well happen in a wartime year when there is great opportunity for travel and little time for rat killing...
...light but fighting group of gray and green clad Gold Coasters held powerful Eliot to three touchdowns yesterday in the House grid season's opening game. Outnumbered two to one and giving away pounds of weight, the Adams team was given little chance of even slowing up the red-jerseyed navy outfit...