Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alabama's first chain gang in decades does not yet know the drill. On a lonely stretch of highway near the Alabama-Tennessee border, guards and bloodhounds look on as 320 convicts from the Limestone Correctional Facility try to negotiate the tricky business of walking in unison while shackled. Clad in immaculate white uniforms (emblazoned with the words chain gang lest anyone mistake them for pastry chefs), the men are equipped with a variety of tools and not quite sure whether they should be trimming, digging or picking up litter. One makes a desultory attempt to start up a work...
...main characters are joined by a large chorus of fedora-crowned men and fishnet-clad women. The singing ability of the cast members varies considerably, and often their harmonic attempts are extremely shaky, but the enthusiasm of the cast is uniformly unbounded...
...fourth floor of the Noble County Courthouse. Said David Deken, 17, who was in English class when he heard the news: "We were just saying a few minutes before that these guys better not set foot in Perry, and suddenly, well, here he is." As the blank-faced, orange-clad McVeigh was led out through the crowd in leg irons and handcuffs, cries of "Baby killer!" tore...
...SPRING. The birds are chirping, the buds are bursting, a young man's fancy turns to mush. Harvard's yearly bout of spring fever is about to begin, as section attendance drops and House courtyards become littered with prematurely scantily clad bodies. Beware. The sap is rising...
...coats, pants, boots, belts--they must have ended up fleeing in their shorts!" Some, in fact, had done exactly that. Nam Pham, venturing into the streets of Saigon on April 29 before shoving aboard a barge at the river docks, noticed among the crowds a number of young men clad in nothing but boxer shorts...