Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee heard testimony linking 26 F.E.-U.E. officers with Communist Party activities. One of the 26: black-browed, Corsica-born John Toussaint Bernard, who was once (1937-38) a Farmer-Labor Congressman from Minnesota, and who once (1950) appeared in Chicago's Loop clad in a Santa Claus suit and handing out Stockholm (i.e., Communist) peace petitions. Subpoenaed by the committee, Bernard invoked the Fifth Amendment, refused to admit or deny Communist activities or sympathies. He left the stand after making a bellicose demand for the $12 owed to him in witness fees...
...made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while a quizmaster flings questions at the audience. Each customer giving a correct answer is entitled to remove one piece of Mile. Genevieve's clothing. This continues until there are no more questions-and no need for them...
...away from Coney Island. Free Berlin's press and public sweated in open indignation while Soviet Zone newspapers fanned their ire with hot blasts of anti-American propaganda. One doughty West Berliner defied both the general's edict and the guns by taking his usual morning dip clad in trunks, a medieval cuirass and a stahlhelm (see cut). The beachhead he established was held. Last week, West Berliners were once again taking their ease at Wannsee each morning. The sharpshooters were getting up in the middle of the night to do their target practice in the small hours...
...year-old vacationing camper, happened to wake, saw that the nearby mountain lodge was afire and rushed to shout a warning. By the time he arrived, the only escape was from the lake side of the house into a motor launch. Out on the safety of the lake, clad only in their night clothes, Hoover, his host, and other guests watched the lodge burn to the ground within ten minutes...
...bulging, bald head and poured down his round face as he took the last slice of the salami. The puppet Hungarian National Assembly, which usually meets for a few dutiful days twice a year, held a special session and crowned Matyas Rakosi Premier of Hungary. Appropriately, Rakosi was clad in black...