Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dinnertime, and the cavernous mess hall is overflowing with gray-clad cadets and a sprinkling of visitors. Two women cadets sit at a table with the reporter and other guests. "They're so pretty," one woman whispers. "Why would they ever come to West Point...
...stopped using the words Great White Brotherhood because of the racist and sexist implications," Mata, clad in simple white cloth pants and shirt with a crystal cross around her neck and sandals on her feet, explains. "Then people began to freak on the word hierarchy. But that's how everything run, it is the world government. There are students and teachers, lower and higher teachers, the high masters, the gods...
...chosen you from among all people to help us," chanted a chorus of women over and over and over again in the Lingala dialect. A few feet away, tribesmen with arrow-pierced cheeks and clad in striped costumes performed a zebra dance. Others waved shining spears in greeting. Women of the Ekonda tribe, their breasts modestly covered for the occasion, swayed and sang to the rhythm of drums...
...last possibility has a disturbing ring. During the harshest years of Brazil's military dictatorship, between 1968 and 1976, lawless police "death squads" administered justice with violent and often arbitrary force. Some of the latest executions do point to police participation. Numerous corpses have been found clad only in shorts, similar to those worn by prisoners in Brazilian jails. Gunshot wounds have obviously been inflicted by heavy-gauge shotguns and other weapons used by the military police. There have also been reports of victims being dragged from their homes by men wearing police uniforms. Most witnesses, including relatives...
...what had been Rhodesia. In its place rose the multistriped banner of Zimbabwe. To honor the historic occasion, there were tribal dances and a parade that seemed to symbolize the peaceful end to seven years of civil war: white Rhodesian soldiers marched smartly into the stadium alongside fatigues-clad black guerrillas whom they had fought for so long. There was a brief moment of magic when Prime Minister Robert Mugabe lit an eternal flame to commemorate the 27,000 people of his new nation who had died during...