Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorktown went down the lines to hold life rafts against the ship's side. The wounded were lowered on wire stretchers. Gradually the groups of khaki and blue-clad men along the rails thinned. Knots of men lingered, talking, reluctant to leave...
...Larry MacPhail's Brooklyn Dodgers: a 9-to-6 win over the baby-blue-clad Chicago Cubs; giving the Dodgers 71 victories out of the first 100 games played this season and placing them only one game behind the National League record set by John McGraw's New York Giants in 1912; at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn...
...over England this week American doughboys looked in the wrong direction for traffic. Tall Americans stooped in the low-ceilinged Rose and Crowns, Red Lions, Crown and Anchors, Bull and Bushes. Firm-handed, fast-driving khaki-clad chauffeurs in khaki-painted jeeps, trucks, station wagons and staff cars, roller-coasted around the sharply winding British roads...
...other courts open, and no one was waiting for ours. What is the reason for this procedure? Can it be that Harvard University puts the small amount of wear and tear on the courts ahead of the physical well-being of the students? Has someone set up an iron-clad rule which must be followed when the courts are relatively deserted as well as when they are crowded? In any case it does not seem to me that the H. A. A. will succeed in its hardening program if it discourages voluntary athletic participation by adopting a policy...
Widener retained its position as a library through the efforts of a steady but small stream of students who came to read and not to sign up. They seemed to succeed despite the interference of the war and the yellow-clad nurses who helped with the registering...