Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hills and mountains enclose us in their green embrace. To the west, rising from the jungle, is a hill surmounted by a white, bell-shaped stupa (shrine) whose glistening, golden spire points needlelike at a soft blue sky. To the east and south tower the forest-clad mountains Phu Xan Noi and Phu Xan Luan, looking like huge elephants...
...return engagement which opened yesterday at Boston's Federal Court Building the Jenner Senate Internal Security Subcommittee broke one of its supposedly iron-clad rules by calling a witness who cooperated in executive session into public session...
...Panmunjom last week, daily groups of 100 blue-clad U.N. prisoners crossed the line to freedom, while groups of 500 enemy P.W.s crossed in the opposite direction. The Communists had erected a welcome sign twice as big as the U.N. sign, reading: RETURN TO THE ARMS OF YOUR FATHERLAND. Many of the northbound enemy P.W.s, carefully outfitted by the U.N. before they started north, had wrapped rags around their heads and otherwise made themselves disreputable. Red cameramen took their pictures, and the Red propaganda mills called them "mutilated, emaciated wrecks...
Colonel Bostrom said, however, that the flying requirement is still only a factor and not an iron-clad clause, and that academic standing will continue to be important for admittance to the advanced course...
Through their binoculars, the men on the outpost hill spotted a lone figure, clad in long woolen underwear and brown sweater, lying in an old Korean graveyard in no man's land, only 350 yards from the neutral perimeter of Panmunjom. Cautiously, a squad of marines started toward him. Part way down the hill, a Puerto Rican marine recognized the wounded man as Pfc. Francisco Gonzalez Matias, 21, of San Sebastian, P.R. In Spanish, Gonzalez was asked if he could walk. Clutching a handkerchief in which was wrapped a rosary, the wounded man struggled to his feet, stumbled toward...