Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter set out to stop him by deploying the kind of forceful, efficient head counters and persuaders that he has never been able to muster while lobbying in Congress. Clad in green-and-white vests, fashioned from tablecloths, 128 Carter floor whips watched for any delegates who looked wobbly on the rule. In a three-hour rehearsal they had discovered that they could send orders to all the Carter delegates on the jammed floor within seven minutes. They had memorized the quickest routes through the nearly always clogged aisles to the alternate delegates seated in tiers above the floor. They...
...mounting debate evokes unpleasant memories of the tension that enveloped the school in March of 1979, when classes were cancelled to relieve growing unease following an unseemly incident where two Dartmouth students skated across the ice clad in Indian garb during a Big Green hockey game...
...sound of gunfire. Then, over a loudspeaker came an unfamiliar voice: "We won't kill any Thais. All we will take is some food." Similar sounds awakened Cambodian refugees at two camps straddling the nearby border between Thailand and Cambodia. All too soon they recognized the fatigue-clad intruders who had stolen into their midst under cover of darkness as Vietnamese soldiers. As back-up mortar and artillery fire echoed in the distance, the Vietnamese began digging foxholes at the camps, sending the frightened refugees fleeing into nearby paddyfields...
...Vernadsky Prospekt apartment complex, the team finds a corpulent 55-year-old man, clad in an undershirt and slacks, sitting on a couch. Serov asks: Is there pain or shortness of breath when he walks? No. Is he under medication? Yes, for high blood pressure. Does he have a recent cardiogram? The patient's wife nervously flips through a book until the cardiogram drops out. Serov quickly decides that the man should be hospitalized...
...Zagorsk. The monastery stands behind a fortress wall, half a mile around and 50 ft. thick, that protects the weathered stones and ancient relics of Trinity Cathedral. It is graduation day at the most important of the Soviet Union's three surviving Russian Orthodox seminaries. The 78 graduates, clad in black tunics and trousers, take their places in the cathedral before the ornate screen, hung with treasured icons, that separates the sanctuary from the congregation. Hundreds of candles shimmer against the gold and silver on the walls, and the smell of hot wax mingles with that of flowers...