Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he arrived last week in South Viet Nam, U.S. General Paul Donal Harkins, 57, found familiar scenes. Saigon's streets are thronged with U.S. soldiers clad in off-duty slacks and Hawaiian shirts. White-helmeted U.S. military police stroll in pairs past the bars and nightclubs of the Rue Catinat. In the high blue sky lie the geometric patterns of contrails from U.S. jets, and at Saigon's busy docks, U.S. ships unload wheat, flour, trucks and military hardware-all the material needed to complete Harkins' mission...
...three songs the tuxedo-clad quartet did best were among the oldest in their repertoire Nobody sings Good Night, Irene like the Weavers, and they make it sound like a fresh song each time they perform it. Hays suggested the audience join in on the other set of words for the same tune--Roll On Columbia--but the idea was greeted with hisses by sports fans in the crowd. It was a pleasure to hear Wimoweh swung again in a musical fashion. The recent "popular" transcription of the South African song is pretty awful, and sounds even worse in comparison...
...bottom, who are the peasants for? Said one, earnestly: "A government is like an adopted father. If there is not enough to eat, the son may quarrel with one father and find another." In Quangnam province, a black-clad villager rolled a cigarette. "Our heart is for the government that takes the least and gives the people happiness and abundance," said he. "We have not yet found that government...
...opened, 99 U.S. ambassadors were at work, from the snow-clad plains of Serbia to the traffic jams of Tokyo. They included 68 ambassadors appointed by President Kennedy. In their first year on the job, the Kennedy men could scarcely claim many successes and have already suffered a number of setbacks. But they may well be the most promising new group of diplomats that the U.S. has fielded in years. Not all of them measure up to Kennedy's campaign promise that he would name as ambassadors "the best talent" in the U.S. But as a measure of ability...
Bill Vaughan, a latecomer to the trade, became a paragrapher by chance. After three years of newspapering in Springfield, Mo., he joined the editorial staff of the Star in 1939, worked at various assignments until the paper's resident paragrapher. the late Clad H. ("Pip") Thompson, retired in 1946. Vaughan replaced Pip as custodian of "Starbeams," a column of paragraphs that has stuck to the Star's editorial page since the paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News...