Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to drown. The lifeboats of the Titanic, she insisted, should have been filled "with an equal number of men." A mammoth suffrage parade down Fifth Avenue, with Lillian Russell and 15,000 other marchers impressed the nation and won large-scale public sympathy. After that, bloomer-clad suffragettes paraded in front of the White House, pinned jonquils on the lapels of sympathetic Congressmen. Theo dore Roosevelt endorsed the cause, and in 1918 Woodrow Wilson surrendered, urged Congress to act. Two years later, after 72 years, the battle of the sexes...
Landing at Stanleyville in his Ilyushin-14 only minutes after the attack on the Globemaster's crew. Patrice Lumumba ignored the patches of blood on the runway, shouted to thousands of cheering ill-clad supporters: "I am very happy to see you in combat uniform ready to descend on Katanga." Back in Leopoldville. the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair...
...Islam, 2) accepts the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., never talks to her husband's male friends, 3) learns to wear a sari or salivar (baggy pants) and kameez (a sort of knee-length blouse. "Dressed like that," sighed a Moslem dowager of her son's sari-clad wife, "how could she be anything...
Alive & Well. In their hermetically sealed cabins, equipped with air-purifying chemicals similar to those used in U.S. atomic submarines, spacesuit-clad Strelka and Belka lolled in a constant 77° temperature. Old space dogs (each of them had taken short rocket rides before), they stared at each other through a pane of glass and ate eagerly from an automatic feeding apparatus while instruments fastened to their bodies relayed their blood pressure, temperature, pulse and breathing rate back to earth. Strelka seemed to bear up better than Belka under the rigors of weightless space travel: her breathing rate remained...
Bringing a gold rosary sent by Mount St. Mary's, as well as vitamins, candy bars, clothes, and a box of cigars, Judge Walsh was shown into his brother's prison, where a grey-clad official lectured him on what was permitted-no mention of the trial, no notes, discussion limited to family matters. The rosary was forbidden; only "necessities" might be given to prisoners...