Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs had taken stubborn Hengyang, key point on the Hankow-Canton railroad. Now, instead of continuing directly south toward Canton, they flung 120,000 troops southwest along the spur line toward Kweilin. An underprivileged Chinese Army, ill-nourished, ill-armed, ill-clad, stood before them, the Fourteenth's flyers hammered them desperately from above...
Child in the Surf. Looking down, I counted the bodies of seven others who had killed themselves. One, a child of about five, clad in a ragged white shirt, floated stiffly in the surf...
...procession of dignified, black-clad women streamed through the streets of Managua last month. Elderly mothers, respectable wives and daughters thus protested the mass arrest of more than 600 opponents of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But ingenious "Tacho" Somoza broke up their demonstration with a more effective...
Samuel Goldwyn was named a defendant in a $50,000 damage suit by blonde Cinemaspirant Lorraine Miller, who charged that he had damaged her reputation, lessened her earning power. Her claim: he had distributed to servicemen, without her consent, a scantily clad picture postcard of her under the name of "Diana Mumby, Samuel Goldwyn's Most Cuddlesome Blonde...
With heavy banks of fog rolling in at Hampton Beach and a driving rain damping things down along the Common, many of the Chase gang were at their wits end. But not for long. Very soon after inspection-too soon in the case of certain skivvy clad members encountered by Lt. Town on his rounds, chase went on the chase in force...