Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue, Brose will say: "Bim bom ban on his brain pan." Except for a slight slackening of the pace in Act II, it's bim bom ban, bang on, all the wEh. Brose moves his pink-nightie-clad bride (Alexandra Berlin) into the boiler room and begs her for understanding. Says she fretfully: "The trouble with getting inside your head is that once I'm there I'm on my own." Brose has been growing mushrooms in the boiler room, and near curtain's drop they sprout hallucinogenic caps. Brose munches...
...degree (two cops accompanied him to his graduation). In the subsequent bar examination, he scored the highest average ever (98.01%). When the puzzled judges accused him of cheating on the exam, Marcos demanded that he be tested orally?and scored 92.35%, the second highest average in history. Then, clad in a white sharkskin suit and white shoes to emphasize his innocence, Marcos pleaded his own case before the Supreme Court on the murder charge. He was exonerated on grounds of conflicting evidence...
...arrived in the form of Ramon Magsaysay, a tall (5 ft. 11 in.), tough blacksmith's son from Zambales province, who took over as Defense Secretary in 1950. A principal backer in the Cabinet reshuffle: Freshman Congressman Ferdinand Marcos. Magsaysay tackled the Huks with double-barreled dynamism: his green-clad, rubber-booted troops rooted them out of the Luzon jungles and killed them without quarter; defectors were offered land in islands not infested by Huks. By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency. Then in 1957, Magsaysay died in a plane crash, and the government passed...
After the battle, spectators were invited to remain in their seats for what the program called "an authentic medieval jousting tournament." There were twelve contestants in the tournament. Clad in authentic armor and wielding long wooden lances, they put on the sort of impressive performance achieved only by highly motivated young...
...students at the world's largest Roman Catholic seminary pour down the marble steps of "the Greg," a babble of a dozen languages fills the air. Germans, known in Rome as gamberi rossi (red lobsters) because of their flaming scarlet cassocks, mingle with purple-clad Scots, Latin Americans in black robes and blue sashes with seminarians from the U.S. in black soutanes with red-andblue cinctures...