Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clad in a white sari, Indira Gandhi sat weeping on the floor beside her dead father's bed. He lay stretched out under a sheet, two crossed lotus blossoms resting above his head. Later, the body was moved to the doorway of the Prime Minister's white-walled house as a line of weeping, shouting mourners two miles long formed to offer final tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Grants Pass (pop. 10,000), a bunch of characters wearing animal skins descended and made him a member of the Oregon Cavemen, a local society that quadrennially pops up to embarrass presidential candidates by making them look like idiots in photographs. In Albany (pop. 13,000), several colorfully clad "Princesses" belonging to the Timber Carnival and some red-suited gents ceremoniously made Rocky an honorary Woodpecker...
Having started last, Salinger is running hardest of all. At first, people had trouble taking him seriously. He had, after all, once taken a fully clad dip in Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill pool, and he was always doing things like holding press conferences in Bermuda shorts or showing up for tennis at the Newport Casino clothed in gorgeous hues of canary yellow and powder blue instead of the traditional white. Even when he quit gagging, his audience sometimes kept on laughing. Once, after his usual quota of jokes, he told his listeners that he wanted to discuss education...
...initial mistakes as printing leaflets and posters with his name misspelled SALLINGER, but it is now functioning with considerable precision. Some 10,000 people are working for him across the state, including a galaxy of Hollywood stars and starlets. A squad of six shapely coeds called "Sweethearts for Salinger," clad in white sailor shifts and red, white and blue berets, has been formed to pass out pink champagne and campaign propaganda at Salinger rallies...
Tourism, however, promises a more comfortable economic future for Spain. Making the best of the sun and the country's picturesque landscape, Spaniards collected $500 million from tourists last summer. Then, too, the annual appearance of hundreds of thousands of bikini-clad, car-owning, politically conscious Europeans from north of the Pyrenees cannot help but jostle Spanish conservatism and apathy...