Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several occasions, she said, frantic young ladies have phoned to say that they just stepped out of the shower clad in a towel, are expecting a date to call any minute, and are locked out of their rooms. (These cries for help are calmly referred to the University police...
Most of the province is securely in Viet Cong hands, but under Lieut. Colonel Raymond Call of the U.S. Special Services, three "oil stains" or advance bases were set up in the Viet Cong territory under Black Virgin Mountain, named for a black-clad maiden who, fable says, leaped to her death from its heights. Colonel Call was determined to make the Viet Cong pay for the lives they had taken and to gradually merge the oil stains...
...visitors were hardly across the frontier when their Volkswagen was surrounded by some 50 highly nervous rebel troops carrying pangas, clubs and spears, their uniforms ranging from European suit coats to shorts and grass skirts. From their midst emerged a goateed man known only as "Major," clad in green fatigue pants and a splendid monkey-skin bush hat. Commissars or no commissars, the major was not going to let the newsmen continue into the rebel area, angrily denounced Americans because the T-28 planes had attacked only that morning. Offered a pacifying cigarette, the major drew himself up with great...
...Royal Suite of Los Angeles' venerable Ambassador Hotel, a man clad only in dark-rimmed glasses and a long white nightshirt with red polka dots sat watching television. On the screen, Richard Dix was battling his way against great odds through a 1941 horse opera called The Round-Up. After many a cliffhanging episode, the Good Guys vanquished the Bad Guys, and the Grand Old West once again was made fit for Decent Folks...
...lurid avenue appropriately named Grosse Freiheit, bored horses trot in a circle as equally bored equestriennes strip while balancing on their backs. Along the Raper, a tourist can shoot a fake duck, get a tattoo, watch an "intimate" movie in Technicolor, or cheer a brace of Amazons clad only in black panties as they wrestle...