Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray Marcos in the vanguard...
...Iron clad safety devices such as circuit breakers which automatically go on when a laboratory technician approaches apparatus are impractical in work where adjustments on the equipment must be made all the time, he explained...
...early afternoon on election day, only a few people hurried to the polls along the palm-shaded streets of Bacolod City, capital of Occidental Negros Province in the Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths who lounged ominously outside; they were members of the 1,500-strong "special police" hired by provincial Governor Rafael Lacson to make sure that the election would turn out the way he wanted it. Police carried off ballot boxes to his home an hour before the polls closed; some ballots...
...Salvador Dali put on his own version of Don Juan Tenorio, Spain's traditional All Souls' Day show. "I am too much of a Spaniard and a necrophile," he said cheerfully, "to miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...
...valet. "I am going up to see a friend on the sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...