Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST U.S. TRADE SHOW behind Iron Curtain will unveil low-cost American fashions at Poznan International Fair in Poland this June. To ill-clad satellite housewives, Manhattan's Ohrbach's will display $600 wardrobe for family of four, emphasize synthetic fabrics with prices indicated to underscore U.S. bargains. Polish mannequins will model the styles...
shed, No walls assailed, no warriors clad...
...nearly a year a lackadaisical honor guard of green-clad Communist sentries lounged around a moldering villa on the banks of the Mekong River in the lotusland Laotian capital of Vientiane. In their spare time, which was ample, the guards planted turnips and lettuce in a tiny garden...
...Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar...
...word that protocol would demand top hat. cutaway and striped trousers at the next stop of his African good-will tour in Liberia. Thus, when the plane landed (with one ailing engine), the Vice President of the U.S., already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last; the car's air conditioning broke down, and as he sped through clouds of heavy...