Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers questioned him and learned his age. He had just turned 13. Even as Mary tried to explain herself--there was a fight with my husband; we were just sleeping; I often watch Vili--they were concerned enough to call in a sergeant. After all, Mary was clad in a coat and T shirt but "was bare-legged below the T shirt," Tschida wrote in a report. The sergeant who arrived later reported that she was wearing a beige skirt. Regardless of this, it didn't look good, and Vili told the Globe that he and Mary had, in fact...
...they do. Clad in wristbands that read W.W.J.D. ("What Would Jesus Do?") and T shirts that declare UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, the kids sing Christian songs, discuss Scripture and work to memorize the week's Bible verse, John 15: 5 ("I am the vine and you are the branches"). Hours pass. As night falls, the group enjoys one last mass hug and finally leaves its makeshift chapel--room 133 of Patrick Henry High School. Yes, a public high school. If you are between ages 25 and 45, your school days were not like this...
This subterranean enclave serves cappuccino, gazpacho and flan to black-clad clientele. The tres chic and bohemian alike ponder over Nabakov until one in the morning, long after Lamont has gone to bed. The quieter hours during the day are more conducive to studying, perhaps on the outside patio, but conversation overheard at Pamplona is always temptingly distracting...
...might think all this debating would benefit American democracy. But that would be naive, for the most important debate on sex and politics in some years occurred this morning before nine lawyers, clad in black and insulated from the public. They heard arguments on an issue of no less consequence than the very definition of sexual harassment...
DIED. WENDY O. WILLIAMS, 48, radically raunchy star of the '80s punk band the Plasmatics who shocked fans with her onstage shenanigans (chain-sawing guitars sometimes clad in little more than strategically placed electrical tape); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Storrs, Conn...