Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.I.s from every branch of the service -paratroopers, artillerymen, medics, engineers-roamed the streets and filled the gambling palaces. The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood. Then the planes stopped coming in, the khaki-clad Army abruptly vanished. Out on the desert, 65 miles away, 5.000 hand-picked troops were getting their final briefing before Exercise Desert Rock-the G.I.'s introduction to atomic warfare...
...Crabrneat. The discriminee was tall, tan Josephine Baker, the sleek Negro singer who first achieved fame in Paris by entertaining while clad only in a girdle of bananas. Miss Baker and some friends (Roger Rico, current male lead in South Pacific, Mrs. Rico and Mrs. Bessie Buchanan, an old friend of Miss Baker's) had sat down in the Cub Room, where they were served a round of drinks. Then Miss Baker ordered a crabmeat cocktail, a steak and a bottle of wine. One hour later, according to friends, nothing had been served, and the waiters were playing...
...pressbox high over Michie Stadium and shivered--and it wasn't the cold mid-afternoon wind. It was the sight of a handful of green or black clad freshmen and sophomores taking the play away from their older counterparts--and playing some competent football while doing so. And it was the AP machine to our left that ticked out very precisely, "third period...Cornell 35...Harvard...
...Except for chance street killings, Dr. Ford believes it a rare murder that can't be traced. In an Eastern city recently, the body of a man, clad in trousers, shirt, socks and unionsuit was found lying on the floor of his room in a lodging house. His necktie had been tightened without disturbing its position beneath the collar and the ends wrapped twice around his neck and the tied in a small knot beneath one ear. Above the tie, his face and neck were discolored...
Just what their intentions were, or what they were looking for--if anything--never became clear, as the pursuers made a basty escape. But the skivvy-clad lad, who claimed to be something called a "Deke," was hurriedly covered up with a pair of blue jeans and transported back to the institution down the river...