Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd, the Russians got their tanks moving, wheeled and skidded them on the sidewalks-showing how much they had recently learned about maneuvering tanks in city streets-chasing people back and forth. But they never chased them away. Hundreds of people just kept dodging. Finally it was the blue-clad police, the real killers, firing burp guns, machine guns and pistols, who sent the crowd fleeing down the alleyways. Next day, as the strike continued, the crowd became even bolder. With a calm that chilled the spines of onlookers, a group of some 500 quietly stood their ground...
...bulky, parka-clad man paused in the hatch of the transport plane and reached back for the duffel bags handed up by a friend. In them were some of his most prized possessions: dozens of tape recordings of South Pacific music, Beethoven sonatas, harp solos. The big man waved goodbye. "See you in 1958," said Paul Siple, 47, a geographer and polar explorer from Arlington, Va. Then he flew off from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound in the antarctic for a 14-month stay at the most isolated community on earth...
...Ishihara writes truly what we, the younger generation, are looking for," said a 21-year-old farm boy in Japan last week, but for Ishihara himself the truth was not so simple. A conscientious professional who lives quietly with a pretty kimono-clad young wife in the ancient tradition of his ancestors, the idol of the Sun Tribers tempers his cynicism with hard work: "As an author, I've got to sleep with my generation like a prostitute, but I've also got to climb out of bed occasionally and try to get one step ahead...
...French occupied Port Said, infiltrating guerrillas plastered the walls with big signs saying: DEATH IF YOU STAY. Shopkeepers closed their stores, and the hostility and resentment mounted to a peak as the first U.N. forces marched in. Yelling "British Go Home" and "Long Live Nasser," nearly 20,000 pajama-clad Egyptians crowded onto the streets and pressed against British troops standing with bayonets drawn. A few Britons jabbed out with rifle butts, but the only shooting took place in the Arab quarter, where a jeepload of French, caught in a crowd, fired, killing two boys aged twelve and 14. Cairo...
When the meat runs out two days later and the coward has run away with the only hunting gun, the petty fights begin. An engaged girl (Phillis Kirk) and Anita Ekberg, clad in scant blouses, tussle over the co-pilot in a nearby brook for the picture's most interesting scene...