Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With three echoing cheers for Juliana, three more for a free Holland, the plump blue-clad jack-tars of the Dutch cruiser that brought the war's first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her tiny children-Princess Beatrix, aged 2½, and Princess Irene, aged 9 months-were whisked off to a pine-shadowed log chateau in the Laurentians. Juliana was bitter. Said she: "Never speak to me of pity. Pity is for the weak, and our terrible...
Next fall cologist Dick Harlow, maestro of the spinner cycle offense, will face the most ambitions schedule over undertaken by a Harvard football team when he sends out his Crimson clad eleven to do battle with six of the ranking teams of the East, the mighty Wolverines of Michigan, and up-and-coming Amherst College...
...gigantically framed and wildly clad," writes Irish Canadian John Mac-Cormac about his heroine, Canada. This sentence is one of the few in his book that will not come as news to a majority of U. S. readers. For Mr. MacCormac, longtime New York Times correspondent in Canada, elsewhere writes neither in such brogue nor in platitudes but with a keen sense of U. S. ignorance about Canada, a brimming ability to fill in that ignorance...
...hold the one bit of dry land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
...that name not entirely encompassed by Germans." Back in Berlin May 1 he joked about British efforts to save cloth: "London . . . theatre managers have already stripped their chorus and show girls down to their epidermis. They've solved the costume problem by presenting their dancing cuties clad only in cuticle...