Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here the street banners read DOWN WITH INDIAN IMPERIALISM IN KASHMIR, but if they were intended to prod Chou into a public expression of support against India, they failed. The two leaders toasted each other with gold-edged crystal goblets, were served by a retinue of turbaned, white-clad waiters, and exchanged platitudes about peace, friendship and Afro-Asian unity...
...Their dog is called Mr. Bonnard.) Behind her seemingly bland suburban life, she is passionately preoccupied with the conflict between appearance and reality. Her bizarrely clad and contorted figures, divided fore and aft in space, are rounded with confusing contours, so that they float between the flat surface of the canvas and its artfully contrived depths...
...occasion to make a second grass-roots tour, this one to mountainous central Viet Nam. At a village of montagnard tribesmen, Khanh let his feet be ceremonially washed in rice wine and buffalo blood. At a bleak infantry fort guarding the Laotian frontier, Khanh trotted out three sparsely clad Saigon cabaret cuties to put on a show, then announced an even greater morale booster-a 20% pay raise for privates and corporals...
...Chicago Black Hawks, Russia's hockey team rattled off seven straight victories, outscoring its opposition by 54 to 10. Against Germany, the Russian goalie only had to make 19 saves; the German goalie made 95-which was still ten too few. One after another, blue-clad Russians tramped to the awards platform, while a weary Tyrolean band played Union Indissoluble, Republics of the Free over and over again...
Between the two men there is always the woman. Clad in a less-than adequate bikini, she watches the struggle develop, soothing a pride here and averting a challenge there. The youth takes little notice of her at first but soon comes to appreciate the solace she offers. For her part, she enjoys the boy's sensitivity--a quality long since abandoned by her husband...