Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those last eight days contained a life time's quota of joy and despair. The despair came in the wilds of Utah, where he was stranded in sub-freezing weather clad only in a light suit, As he described it. "After walking for some time I became tired and, taking my pack off my back, I seated myself on it and rested, but. . . I quickly realized that I was starting to freeze to death and that if didn't start walking I would never see the dawn of another...
Death of a Republic. On the evening of Jan. 30, 1933, the boots of the brown-clad Storm Troops beat like thudding drums along the Wilhelmstrasse beneath a flaming canopy of torches. Leaning far out over the Reich's Chancellery balcony, Adolf Hitler, with sparkling eyes, watched them march past. Battalion after battalion swung by, bands crashing out the song Die Fahne Hoch. ... In a nearby window, a rocklike silhouette, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gazed on the parade with age-dimmed eyes...
...inserting mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration, and then return and tell her village, his people: "This is what we are building for everyone...
...story, dated and ludicrous, is relieved only occasionally by a few amusing and probably unintentional remarks, as well as the frequent appearance of Hedy Lamarr clad in nothing but a lurong and a quart of stain. As a savage the Austrian-born star is far from convincing, however, despite her interpretation of a native hooch cooch dance that is more a la Old Howard than African...
...that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does bumps and grinds and makes the standard Hollywood harem look as well clad as a winter army on the Russian steppes...