Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took their German Legionnaires on into the Communist machine-gun and mortar fire, finally into a bayonet charge. When the Legionnaires reached the Communist line, they found that the Reds had pulled back, taking their wounded with them. Four times through the heat of the day the cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under sniper fire. They put their dead and wounded in a dugout canoe and went forward. From the river, Ensign Lecorche led his LCMs...
...nearby hut, Miriam Awat, a Yemenite girl, spoke up for her giggling girl friends, all clad in Mother Hubbards, long tight Arab pants, and beaded headdresses fashioned like a crusader's mailed hood...
...former British army camp renamed Shaar Aliyah (Gate of Immigration), for two weeks or so of medical isolation. The heterogeneous immigrants stroll aimlessly: a gangling youth in a heavy blue ski suit that was fine for the weather he knew in Rumania will gawk at shriveled, turbaned old men clad in the pajama suits of North African Arabs; chattering old ladies from Hungary, clutching fur scarves, look incredulously on squatting North African women in long cotton shifts...
...returned by 9:45, the Campbells set out to look for him. On the road an old car shot past at high speed, with a boy outside, on the running board. It was David. The Campbells pursued, caught up with the other car only when it slowed down. David, clad in undershorts and his body smeared with tar, was too dazed to recognize his parents...
When soldiers pillaged and burned the Trappist monastery at Yangkiaping, writes Grady, the 75 Chinese monks of the community were made prisoners and were led from one squalid mountain jail to another, ''ill fed, poorly clad, roughly treated, along a veritable 'way of the cross,' during which 27 of them died, and at the end of which six others were publicly executed." At the end of his article, Father Grady ists the names of 66 priests, lay brothers and nuns killed in China from 1946 to 1950, and 36 others who died in prison or immediately...