Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swirl of dust to take the air. One, a little too close, was caught in the slipstream of a ship ahead. It went out of control, screamed off the runway, ripped the motors off a parked plane, bounced off a jeep and crashed beyond in a group of khaki-clad men. The injured pilot was carried off the field crying "See what I did, see what...
...tracks (the main roads were strictly military) there was an endless train of automobiles, rattling bullock carts, and two-horse tongas, normally used for Madras' internal traffic - all piled Okie-like with chattels. Behind the carts were tied goats, cows and water buffaloes, and behind them walked scantily clad, long-haired Telegus and Tamils, male and female alike bearing huge bundles. The exodees stopped here & there at free food dumps along the dusty roads...
...days Cebu's people had taken to the hills every time a ship appeared in the roadstead. After each false, alarm, lean, grey, Lieut. Colonel Howard J. Edmands and his little denim-clad Filipino M.P.s tramped back from the dock areas through the street, jaunty and unafraid with their rifles and their single machine gun. The remains of Cebu's population quieted down, and waited...
...than three weeks the fat to muscle metamorphosis of the allegedly physically dormant Harvard man is scheduled to begin. Yet with compulsory athletics all but an actuality, the plans and policies of University Hall, the HAA, and the Hygiene Department are still in the amendment stage. The initially iron-clad announcement of supervised conditioning for all has been relaxed to allow credit for geology field trips, team managing, and possibly bicycling as well as for participation in Naval and Military Science, and Varsity and House athletics. Apparently the compulsory athletics plan is no exception to the University's well known...
Adolf Hitler has given Martin Bormann greater powers than any Party official ever had before. He can (theoretically) veto any law, must countersign all official appointments. He will often exercise these powers clad in one of his two dozen pairs of riding breeches. He cannot ride a horse...