Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most puzzling factor to the veterans is the eagerness with which civilian clad V-mates are awaiting the first uniform issues: Anxious to get the feel of ordinary clothes again, they can only look on in wonder at bell-bottoms which have been purchased with personal funds...
...platoon five nearly succeeded in single-handedly stealing the evening's honors for his platoon with an original satire on radio wave propagation. Platoon six's "The Harlem Revolts" or "The Shiek Shirks" was reminiscent of Harvard's Hasty Pudding productions, as muscular males cavorted about as scantily clad harem beauties...
Close by, two buglers play taps. The Chaplains put on their caps and the graveyard bulldozer huff-puffs again, pushing mounds of cold Attu earth over the khaki-clad bodies of eight U.S. soldiers...
...Valley Forge General Hospital the Duchess of Windsor, in "Wallis Blue" and a sable scarf, bestrewed wounded U.S. fighting men with 1,500 rosebuds. Accompanying her, the Duke was clad in a grey plaid ten years old (too old to be one of those English drapes which some stylists conceive as a possible source of the zoot suit). The Duke compared the style of reporters' pants with his own, remarked: "I think it's a silly rule that does away with trouser cuffs...
...well have been transported to Shangri-la for the first few of those nine days, it has been so amazing. Musters divided by 10 and then redivided to give us our present number, no daily room inspection, but instead, a student club, more shore leave, generally less iron-clad discipline...BUT, more work and still more...