Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tricky Reds infiltrated U.S. lines at night, or by day disguised as white-clad peasants, and shot up U.S. positions from the flank and rear. The Kum line could not be held. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th Infantry Division arrived from Japan to help the battered 24th, and Lieut. General Walton Walker was appointed MacArthur's ground cornmander in Korea. The Americans fell back from Taejon to Kumchon, the next important junction on the rail and road line to Pusan...
Students will come over the bridge too. Some will walk quickly, whistling a bit, pausing a second to drink from a leather bound flask, pulling a brightly clad girl along by the hand...
...Exercise Rainbow," an eight-day joint maneuver by nearly 100,000 U.S., British and French troops to test Western defenses against "an invasion by superior enemy forces from the East," began in Germany this week. The green-clad "invaders," a U.S. armored force, struck from the borders of Soviet-held East Germany and Czechoslovakia, forced back the British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating...
...readers leafed through the advertisements in Esquire last week, they found one that was somewhat different. Instead of the usual collection of he-men modeling pipes, brogues and rakish hats, there was a sylphlike female clad only in a scanty girdle...
...President Syngman Rhee's government made its third emergency move of the war*-to Pusan-and ordered the evacuation of Taegu's population (swollen from the normal 300,000 to about twice that figure). Soon the roads to east and south were choked with heavily burdened, white-clad refugees...