Word: clad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stood in the center of the Bosky Amphitheater at the 18th green of the Augusta National golf course last Sunday and stroked in a tap-in to win the Masters. Watson was not quite as resplendent as Jimmy Demaret was when he won the tournament on Easter Sunday, 1947, clad in canary yellow from head to foot, but then all anyone notices in the end is the green jacket traditionally given to the Masters champion...
...Tanzania, it again rained on the Soviet President's parade. The crowds of schoolchildren and workers dutifully turned out by President Julius Nyerere for visiting celebrities had wildly cheered the fatigue-clad revolutionary from Havana a few days before. They could barely muster enough enthusiasm to wave their little flags for the aging (74) apparatchik from Moscow...
...retired janitor clad in a rumpled uniform slouched down in his seat, concerned that some familiar face might spot him there and tattle to his wife. He said he felt a "bit out of place," uncomfortable in the young and couple-dominated crowd that descended upon the dilapidated Harvard Square Theater moviehouse to see the much-discussed nude revue that opened this particular night. "I never believed it could be happening--right in front of my own eyes," he muttered, shaking his head during intermission, still stuck to his ant's-eye-view fifth-row-aisle seat. "Ah, the nudity...
...ominous chords in the background. In the foreground our poor heroine pitiously bemoans as the barker comes to foreclose her mortgage and an Indian threatens her if she refuses to yield to his demands. Suddenly, clad like the true-blue forest ranger he is, our hero appears to save her. Sound like a scene from a silent movie anyone ever associated with it would rather forget? No, it's the storyline for Little Mary Sunshine, the operetta playing at South House this weekend...
Seventeen years later the Bear is still astounding the golfing world. Last Sunday's victory had nostalgic over-tones as Nicklaus was paired with habitually grim-countenanced and sable-clad Gary Player--the last two survivors of the "the Big Four...