Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bedizened with flags and bunting, the dredge Manhattan, a $600,000 gift to Siam from the ECA, last week lay alongside a Bangkok wharf. After yellow-robed Buddhist priests chanted prayers, Siam's Premier Phibun Songgram, clad in gleaming white, made a formal speech accepting the dredge from the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Grouped around Phibun were the fashionably dressed ladies & gentlemen of Bangkok's diplomatic corps. The first inkling of trouble came when a fluttery British lady in long gloves and a floppy picture hat was approached by a smooth-shaven young Siamese marine...
...first, the major was obviously unbalanced. He had lost his sense of time and place, and insisted that he was living on the roof of his house. He had trouble finding words for things, and described the white-clad nurses as "sugar-iced people." He still thought he was being persecuted, and for a time he was hard to handle. But his wounds healed and he soon settled down. After three months, the major was alert and rational again, and reading the daily papers. He denied that he had ever suffered from a suicidal mania and refused to believe that...
Heat Rash. In Toronto, shortly after hauling away a bus rider clad only in his undershirt, police rushed out again to nab a nonchalant pedestrian who wore only his dress shirt...
Last week, finally persuaded by a letter from his brother, Petty Officer Junji Inoue, clad in parachute shirt and pants, stepped out of Anatahan's bushes and gave himself up to the crew of a Navy tug. Still holding out with one machine gun in the island's hills: 18 of his companions, who were still unconvinced that peace had broken...
Fabiola (Jules Levey; United Artists), based on the 97-year-old novel by Britain's Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, pictures the ordeals and triumphs of the Christian martyrs in Constantine's Rome. Made in Italy three years ago with French and Italian actors romping toga-clad through elaborate sets populated by 7,000 extras, the movie has been dubbed into English and shrewdly released to steal the thunder of such forthcoming spectacles as MGM's Quo Vadis and 20th Century-Fox's David and Bathsheba...