Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Green-clad Australian troops swept on to the Gap atop New Guinea's Owen Stanley Mountain Range, neared Kokoda, which had been occupied by the Japs in August. But Lieut. General Sydney Fairbairn Rowell's crack Imperial troops had not yet found the main Jap forces which were supposed to be threatening Port Moresby. U.S. pilots strafed and bombed villages further along which the enemy had been known to occupy. General Rowell ordered up supplies, guns, ammunition, more troops, prepared to strengthen his positions along one of the world's wildest jungle-&-mountain trails, just in case...
Thirty-four hundred officers stationed at Harvard and members of the ROTC unit will march in the parade preceding the Harvard-Army football game on October 24. They will replace the gray-clad hoards from West Point who will be absent from the annual ceremonies for the first time in 14 years...
Excessive zeal is paramount to successful candidates. Clad in white ducks, sweatshirts, and sneakers, they must run to and from all assignments, never sit down, and always wear an interested look...
Riding into one of the hottest controversies that has raged around here in many a year, the green-clad William & Mary Indians arrived at the Stadium yesterday and went through a short practice in preparation for this afternoon's encounter with Harvard...
...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...