Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital, San Salvador. According to the army, the victims were subversives who put up an armed resistance to the raid. But most independent observers agree that the victims were unarmed residents who were taken from their homes by the soldiers and shot. Many of the corpses were clad only in their underwear...
With the Yard filled with students clad in down jackets and full-length winter coats, it's hard to imagine that just eight days ago the Harvard women's soccer team donned white shorts and jerseys to play its final game of the 1981 season...
...moral revulsion against "overkill," the frightening capacity of each superpower to destroy the other many times over, combined with genuine fear of a nuclear war that would leave little more than ashes and radiation where 350 million people now live. Says Mient-Jan Faber, 40, the lanky, jeans-clad leader of the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council (I.K.V.), which serves as a model to anti-nuclear organizations elsewhere in Western Europe: "Arms control, the step-by-step approach, has not worked. Our overall goal?all nuclear weapons out of Europe?will be a long process, but it can begin here...
...more negotiations you could both cut massively into your nuclear stocks without risk because you both have enough for deterrence." The national headquarters of C.N.D. is a few cramped offices in London's seedy Camden Town. Twelve full-time staffers (two of whom are Communists) and 20 volunteers clad in jeans and T shirts stuff envelopes, sort mail and dispatch the leaflets, badges and stickers that have already brought in $200,000 this year...
Candlelight flickers softly in the room, dancing on the tablecloth and glinting on the goblets' crystal stems. The elegant table, laid for eight, is set for a lavish gourmet feast, and the guests, clad in evening gowns and tailored suits, talk of Herodotus and scientific ethics over white wine, blanched vegetables and cheddar cheese fondue. In the seat of honor, Emily Vermeule, professor of Fine Arts, discusses her excavations in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion. It is Jim Mitchell's dream come true...