Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clad in the Oxford cloth of Andover and Harvard, Tarazi speaks with the American accent he learned in Pennsylvania and Colorado schools. He is also a practiced debater, arguing forcefully on political subjects that most Americans approach cautiously for fear of giving offense...
...said that they had produced neutrons as well. Next Texas A&M scientists showed off an experiment on April 10 that they said had confirmed the heat readings recorded previously by Pons and Fleischmann. Fusion fever was rising now. Georgia Tech said on the same day that its jean-clad researchers had detected neutrons. Maddeningly, no one seemed to be looking for both heat and neutrons in a single experiment, to nail down whether fusion was in fact occurring. But Pons showed no doubt on April 12 as he addressed 7,000 members of the American Chemical Society...
...ever an American artist had seemed dead and buried a decade ago, along ! with the movement he had led, that man was surely Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). True, his huge murals writhing with buckskinned, blue-jeaned and gingham-clad Americans were still to be seen in situ in the Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, and the Truman Library, Independence, Mo.; his name might still be invoked in Kansas City, where his latter years were spent; and most students of American art history knew that he had been the teacher (and to no small extent, the substitute father) of Jackson...
During each successful contest, Ward crafts a picture of the owner that makes her an extreme caricature of the capitalist class. Sitting in her luxury box seat, flanked by her lackey general manager and two servants clad in white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...
Wallace, along with a host of clowns, sequin-clad dancers and several very young singers and comedians, performed for the children in Burden Auditorium and then joined his friends for a parade to a carnival in Bright Hockey Center...