Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pall was cast over a considerable portion of the class which arrived clad in Khaki when the categorical imperative was delivered decreeing the wearing of the gray. Most of this suffering minority would prefer that the warships be painted light brown...
...moment came. The long black limousine bearing Franklin Roosevelt entered by the east gate of the Parliament grounds, moved up the driveway between ranks of dun-clad Canadian Wacs standing at smart attention. A great roar rose from 27,000 throats...
...predict that when the Yale-men row their eight oar shells up the Charles in their black derbies and Chesterfields they will find the place already laid waste by a most savage beer-suit clad attackers. Think not that you can escape, Fair Harvard, for the skinny finger of Radar points unerringly...
...opening ceremonies. The event, on Bastille Day, was one of the most worldly of Manhattan's wartime week and produced some deft social comment. Reported the New York Journal-American's Cholly Knickerbocker:*". . . the former Duchess of Marlborough wasn't there. . . . The always impeccably clad Mrs. Harrison Williams arrived at the showing via her dainty 'tootsies.' . . . Almost everyone had an amusing tale of adventures encountered on busses, taxis and even subways...
...troops closing in on Munda had learned much since Bataan; these troops were fighting a new kind of warfare. Once they wore khaki and blue dungarees; now they were clad in mottled yellow-brown-green coveralls that blended with the deep color and shadow of the tropics. Once they had little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped...