Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyers swung broadside to the low-lying coast and sounded a compelling reveille with the barking of their 5-in. guns. Boats crowded with green-clad men crawled like bugs toward the shore. This was no landing on an enemy beach saturated by bombardment; success this time depended on surprise...
Seemingly out of place every morning when the junior class lines up at formation is a slightly-built, always smiling officer clad in a distinctive, powder blue uniform. Having heard scuttlebutt going around that he was from (a) the Bolivian Coast Guard, (b) the Chilean Army, and (c) the Nicaraguan Merchant Marine, we sought him out the other evening, just by way of accurately determining his identity. We found out that he is Captain Manual Higueras of the Peruvian Air Force...
...staff car rolled to a dockside some where in New Guinea, discharged a four-star passenger. Columns of green-clad U.S. soldiers boarding transports recognized Douglas MacArthur's plain shirt and trousers, braided cap, plump cigar. Brigadier General Julian Cunningham walked over, saluted...
Colonel John K. Howard, commanding officer of all Army Training Schools at Harvard, and Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, addressed more than 1000 khaki-clad trainees at a meeting in Sanders Theatre last Monday night of the members of the ASTP schools north of the Charles...
...blue-clad commander, spotlighted on the huge stage of Hollywood's Legion Hall, intoned: "The sergeant at arms will ascertain if there are any veterans of the world wars seeking admission to the American Legion...