Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduced front-line fighting last week to its lowest scale since early October. On the frigid ridges of the central front, where the rain had put a glazed crust on four inches of fresh snow, the temperature dropped to 3° below zero. Enemy patrols were observed in white-clad camouflage. In a pre-dawn snowstorm, the Reds captured some frozen foxholes near "Old Baldy," slipped away after trading machine-gun fire with the allies for an hour...
According to Von Braun's calculations, it will take about a dozen such shuttles to ferry the knocked-down parts of the space station into its orbit, where men clad in space suits will assemble it. Their task will be lightened somewhat by the absence of gravity, but they will have to be pushed to & from their work stations by small rockets bearing against their navels...
...beautiful morning, with wisps of mist clinging to the jungle-covered hills. But the grimy, green-clad French Foreign Legion marched down Route Coloniale No. 2 beside their guns and tanks with curses on their lips. It was the luck of war: they had made a lightning strike into the heart of enemy country, but just as they had been about to descend on the Communist stronghold of Yenbay, the whole operation had been called off. Operation Lorraine it had been named-parachute troops leapfrogging an armored spearhead of 15,000 infantrymen, as pretty a piece of planning...
...face because he did not know how to cook tempura (Japanese fried fish or shrimps) and declared that "all American women on Corregidor should be turned over to the Japanese for immoral purposes." Once, said Brown, he followed Provoo to the top of a hill where Provoo, clad in a shroud, "let out those wild Buddhist chants...
...Clad in a rumpled suit and a grubby mackintosh, stocky, tousle-haired Theodo: Blank, who is West Germany's defense boss, looks nothing like the traditional great-coated, heel-clicking Prussian militarist. As secretary of the Miners' Union, he once told an Allied general: "I know you generals. You're the biggest trade union in the world, and if I had my way I wouldn't let anybody who served in the old German army back...