Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Temple. More often than not, they tolerantly allowed Christians and Jews free access to the shrines of the city. In 1095, however, inspired by rumors of Islamic persecution of pilgrims, Pope Urban II proclaimed a holy crusade to reconquer Jerusalem for Christ. Four years later, mail-clad knights led by Godfrey of Bouillon took the city by storm and slaughtered every Moslem they could find-afterward repairing for prayer at the shrine of the Holy Sepulcher...
...India in 1952, and Menuhin persuaded Shankar to play last summer at the Bath Festival in England. In what both performers termed "an experiment," Menuhin practiced his violin for two days under Shankar's coaching so that he could sit in on a raga. Clad in a raw-silk tunic and sitting cross-legged amid a haze of incense, Menuhin might indeed have passed for a native fidllist, except that he did not rest the head of his fiddle on his toe in the traditional Indian manner...
deeboop, "Diddlidong, sboop," dee, sang the tong, boopeepee-sweater-clad conductor to the orchestra. Then, raising his baton, he said: "Now - again...
Nonetheless, the store's blazer-clad salesmen are glad to see customers like Richard and Liz Burton, who ordered 70 pieces of matched luggage for themselves and a maid not so long ago. Or the woman who came in to browse among 60 different kinds of alligator handbags and picked a black Javanese one for $1,200. Months ago, the management concluded that it was time to lay such baubles before the affluent outside New York. The San Francisco store, scheduled to open in November, is just the first. "We are looking West, but that...
...Joan. That hippies can actually work becomes evident on a tour of the commune's vegetable gardens. Cabbages and turnips, lettuce and onions march in glossy green rows, neatly mulched with redwood sawdust. Hippie girls lounge in the buffalo grass, sewing colorful dresses or studying Navajo sand painting, clad in nothing but beads, bells and feather headdresses. (Not everyone is a nudist-only when they feel like it.) A shaggy sheepdog named Grass plays with the hippie children, among them a straw-thatched 17-month-old boy named Adam Siddhartha...