Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enemy Was Waiting. As the green-clad soldiers piled out of the boats, the Japs opened up with mortar and machine gun. Allied rocket boats darted inshore, hurling their fireballs. Destroyers smashed at shore batteries. Under the curtain, more infantry poured in. The fire of American tommy guns, machine guns, carbines and mortars grew stronger...
Three hundred, the invading wedge, sailed into the Navy Department's rambling buildings in December 1942 to release deskbound sailormen for more active missions. Since then officers and enlisted personnel of the WAVES have been arriving in blue-clad droves, sometimes at the rate of 1,000 a month, while blue-clad men have been shoving off for sea or overseas duty...
...high hilltop, every day, all day long, an R.A.F. lieutenant equipped with binoculars and telephone sits on a fuel can, spotting aircraft. Two other spotters are Partisan girls roosting on the island's only snow-clad peak. When planes approach they signal by firing their rifles, and these signals are relayed in like manner to battle headquarters, which sounds a siren to alert the island's anti-aircraft gunners...
...Nazi spirit was strong everywhere. In a recreation hall was an art exhibit put up for the occasion. A denim-clad curator goose-stepped visitors in, goose-stepped them back to the door, giving them the Nazi salute. The pictures on show included charcoal drawings of hefty nudes, portraits of young, haughty Nazi soldiers (Adolf Hitler was not on display), sardonic drawings of Alabama shanty homes, scenes of the African battlefield, sketches of their stockade...
...proprietor (Gene Kelly), his one true love among the chorines (Rita Hayworth- and their friend, a clown called Genius (Phil Silvers). A glossy Manhattan publisher (Otto Kruger) sees in Miss Hayworth the image of her grandmother, whom he loved in his youth (Miss Hayworth is glimpsed briefly, more fully clad, in Tony Pastor flashbacks). He puts her on the cover of his magazine, Vanity. After that it is only a question of time before she bolts her lover for a Broadway producer (Lee Bowman) and his big new show. In due time she bolts a socialite wedding march...