Word: clad
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Indeed, the nation has taken huge strides forward since the '30s. Franklin Roosevelt's "one-third of a nation" is now closer to one-seventh of a nation; many who are considered "ill-housed, ill-clad and ill-nourished" by today's standards would not have been considered too badly off a generation ago. According to a Government report released by the President last week, the number of Negro families earning less than $3,000 has been halved, to 32%, in the past two decades, and fully 45% earn over $5,000 a year...
...breeze. Some 25,000 troops lined the streets leading to the square in front of the Assembly, and in the reviewing stands waited the representatives of 22 nations, headed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. As a 21-gun salute from a howitzer boomed across the capital, Thieu and Ky, clad in business suits, arrived in twin Mercedes 300s to be sworn...
...Vice President had been turned on by two Go-Go girls whom he almost knocked over as he hurried into a $25-a-head cocktail party for Philadelphia's electioneering Mayor James Tate. Unflappable Campaigner Humphrey recovered his balance and shook hands with the two girls, who were clad only in black boots, tight red leotards and astonished expressions. "I was thunderstruck," said Joan Krauss, 23. "I'm not used to meeting Vice Presidents in my underwear...
Half a Bottle a Day. On the surface, Smith seems a cheery soul. From his burly, 6-ft., 205-lb. body, conservatively clad figure, pipes a merry, falsetto voice and a wealth of breezy wit. He is an incorrigible flirt-but friends who know him best compare him to St. Anthony and Martin Buber, calling him a kind of tormented saint. Says one of them, the painter Robert Motherwell: "Like myself and Jackson Pollock, he's a Celt. That partly explains his lyricism, his love of talk and drink -and his sense of being a minority...
...swimming makes no special splash these days, so Australia's Linda McGill, 21, showed up in France with a new gimmick. A free-spirited Olympic swimmer who was banned from competition after riding a bike into the Japanese Imperial moat, Linda announced that she would tame the Channel clad only in goggles and bear grease. When the Channel Swimming Association frosted the idea, Linda added a red one-piecer to her attire and plunged in. She lost her goggles three-quarters of the way to England, then stumbled on the rocks at the finish and badly gashed herself above...