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Word: clad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss waltzes from other sources, given it a new prologue, a new name (Rosalinda) and a decorous, Victorian strip tease (see cut) that leaves its leading lady more thoroughly clad than many of today's best-dressed bathing beauties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Light-Opera Boom | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...Crimson look to shot-specialist Thayer Drake and All New England halfback Dick Gifford for much of the strength necessary to top an unusually strong outfit of orange-clad booters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Booters Face Powerful Tiger Team | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

Loyally the khaki-clad audience roared: "Yes!" Unwisely Conductor Stokowski asked: "How many say no?" Following an old U.S. custom, a lone dissenter piped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tank Corps | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...Mufti-clad members of the Harvard Band met the marchers at the field and broke into martial music. By the reviewing stand, the battalions drawn up in their positions, rehearsed cheers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC PARADES TO PRACTICE FOR ARMY TILT | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

...soldiers discreetly retreated when a strangely dressed figure emerged from the woods near Fort McPherson, Ga. Clad in heavy garments, with goggles and big asbestos gloves, he toted a bulging burlap sack. Even technicians at the fort's medical laboratory shrank back. "Unclean, unclean," said one of them. "Phooey," replied Sergeant Seymour Shapiro. From his sack he pulled one of the long, leafy, hairy-stemmed vines of poison ivy he had been gathering, cut the vine into 3-ft. lengths and hung the pieces in bundles, like curing tobacco, from the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison-Ivy Cure | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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