Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reflections-a vast improvement on the standard flat, glass-topped case. Ironwork is mounted on open, tentlike forms. To show off the unique collection of ballet costumes, triangular booths were set in surrealist space across wide expanses of floor. Thus the viewer can wander around and encounter each costume-clad dummy individually, each as isolated and unexpected as a presence on a darkling plain...
...young lieutenant deserted his unit, taking his pistol with him. Reaching Moscow the day before the celebration for the Soyuz4 and Soyuz5 cosmonauts, he spent the night at the home of his sister. The next morning he borrowed his brother-in-law's police uniform, explaining that, clad in that manner, he would be able to get a closer view of the parade. Some variants say that he also took his brother-in-law's pistol, which would explain reports that he fired away with a pistol in each hand...
...cold January morning, no time for a self-respecting resident of The Hague to be on the streets, and the desk sergeant at police headquarters was baffled by the middle-aged Chinese, clad in pajamas and raincoat, who stood before him. From the mixture of broken Dutch and poor English, the problem resolved itself: the man was Liao Ho-shu, 46, interim chief of Communist China's mission in The Netherlands, and he wanted police protection. After some delay, he was turned over to the Dutch BVD (security police), who whisked him off for interrogation at a spacious, secluded...
SOME time in the night, the eleven men-eight Jews, two Moslems and a Christian-were secretly hanged in their prison in Baghdad. Then their bodies, clad in the red jail uniform of the doomed, were hauled by truck to downtown Liberation Square, where a set of wooden gallows had been hastily constructed to display them. Next morning Baghdadis awoke to martial music and the shrill cries of loudspeakers and radio, urging them to take the day off to view the executed "Israeli spies." For those who could not make the trip, the government ordered the medieval sight broadcast...
...Major James N. Rowe, a 1960 West Point graduate, was captured in the delta in October 1963 while serving as a Special Forces first lieutenant advising South Vietnamese forces. Last week the crew of an American helicopter operating over a clearing near Ca Mau city spotted a bearded figure clad in black pajamas and waving a mosquito net. It was Rowe. He had escaped from his captors with the unenviable distinction of having been a prisoner of the Viet Cong for five years...