Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berliners tell it last week, the contrast they found with their living standards in West Berlin was appalling. Nowhere did the disparity between East and West come clearer than at the crossing points themselves. West Berliners cruised through the Wall in gleaming Volkswagens and Mercedeses or walked across warmly clad in fur coats, bright Bogner ski pants and ruddy complexions. The East Berliners who greeted them looked grey and chunky by contrast in their long, drab overcoats and Russian-style galoshes. Their streets, their homes looked much the same: empty, and a bit forlorn...
...jolly good bash, in the best "sundowner" tradition. The big stone house on Kampala's Tank Hill swarmed with 180 laughing, hard-drinking whites clad in the most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen...
KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this deft Polish thriller, two lusty men and one bikini-clad woman go out in a sloop to sail-and Director Roman Polanski sets them tacking on a zigzag course between...
...Youth Rally at Nairobi last week was interrupted by the sudden appearance of four rangy Africans. Each was clad in animal skins, armed with sharp-bladed pangas and wearing his hair in long braids smeared with red mud - the fighting insignia of the Mau Mau terrorists. The crowd fell silent as the four approached the dais where sat Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta and his honored guest, Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. With his lumbering, elephant walk, Kenyatta descended from the dais, pushed through his startled security guards, and greeted the Mau Mau. "Kenya is free...
KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this deft Polish thriller, two lusty men and one bikini-clad woman go out in a sloop to sail-and Director Roman Polanski sets them tacking on a zigzag course between...