Word: clad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month, for example, 40 heavily armed men, clad in a variety of makeshift uniforms, staged a commando-style raid on two hotels run by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Buenos Aires. They herded 26 captives -24 Chileans, a Uruguayan and the Paraguayan manager of one of the hotels -into waiting cars. All 26 turned up the next day, many testifying to beatings and electrical torture in what they believed to be a military barracks. The refugees-most of whom left Chile following the overthrow of Salvador Allende-had been warned to leave the country within...
DEAR GOD, MAKE ME COWER SO THAT I CAN GET INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE. So proclaimed banners carried through the streets of Bonn last week by some of the 15,000 long-haired, jeans-clad students who had poured into the capital for a peaceful protest against a variety of university and government measures. The target of those particular banners was a four-year-old government decree aimed at keeping potential subversives out of public service jobs. Universally known as the Radikalenerlass (radicals' decree), its tough guidelines have actually barred a mere 428 job applicants out of a total...
Gary Snyder, an American poet who celebrates Zen and nature, looked like a man-in-the-mountain come down last night as he descended the stairs to the Hilles Cinema stage, clad in forest green and carrying his poems in a knotted scarf...
...windows sealed by black curtains and masking tape. Only when watching television was he aware of the time; long ago he had imperiously chosen to ignore the ordinary routine of days and nights. He spent most of his time sitting in a straight-backed hard chair, most often clad only in pajamas. He was constantly attended by two male aides who acted as secretaries and nurses. When he lived at the Desert Inn, he was separated from the aides by a glass partition to ward off germs. If he wanted to give instructions, he would summon an aide...
...Wisconsin at precisely 9:07 p.m. Perrotta pulled out a coded sheet of paper and quickly penciled in the totals: 133 votes for Gerald Ford; 83 for Ronald Reagan. He noted the call had come from Milwaukee's Fifth Congressional District and handed the sheet to a dungaree-clad coed, who took it to a bank of keypunch operators...