Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-&-blue cockade of the R.A.F. on her camouflaged sides, ground-looped on a take-off and burned as her pilots skipped out of danger. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field four Douglas DB75 whisked in from the west in formation, were landed by their khaki-clad pilots as nice as you please...
...itself for if President Roosevelt chose to fire his new economic weapon. The U.S. last season got only 18% of its silk from China and other minor sources, all the rest (273,711 bales) from Japan. Loss of this supply would mean i) an epidemic of bare or lisle-clad shanks, 2) abrupt dislocation of the U.S. hosiery industry (97,000 workers), 3) lesser repercussions on many another U.S. clothing manufacturer...
...born noncombatant," he mainly vegetated in Munich, more & more dependent on the friendship of ladies, writing letters (TIME, June 10, 1940) which combine elegance with self-pity. In the War Ministry, his job was to rule lines on to pay-sheets, "a duty he discharged with meticulous neatness, clad in a fancy-dress uniform." He had no conception of what was going on. Men by the millions were wrought into massive awareness of life & death; Rilke saw only evil and suffering, and little of that unless it frustrated him personally. He committed what is, for any great artist, a mortal...
...rule books mixed and read the one for Russia") and the paper invited its readers to say more about the Memphis Incident. Cantankerous Westbrbok Pegler defended Ben Lear on the probability that "the obstreperous haberdashers and grocers" of the Quartermaster outfit had used lewd language to Memphis' shorts-clad girls-an unfair, and also incorrect assumption...
Into a palmy Bombay hotel purrs Mr. Gable, mustachios akimbo. He is a high-hat English jewel thief posing as a Lloyd's of London sluefoot. Behind him undulates Rosalind Russell, clad in a white hat the size of a Syrian water wheel. She, too, is a gem thief, but posing as a baroness. One look at her and Actor Gable begins leering, ogling, wriggling his mustaches. It is Empire Day and the two carat-coppers are, unknown to each other, after a very heavy stone named the Star of Asia, which customarily swings from the wrinkled neck...