Word: claddings
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...just one small man in a large crowd of half a million. But as the black-clad protesters streamed into Hong Kong's Victoria Park last week, they would stop for a moment to stare at the slight, unprepossessing individual. Only when he lifted a megaphone, broadcasting a familiar voice whose Gatling-gun delivery epitomizes the staccato clatter of the Cantonese dialect, were they sure. For this was Wong Yuk-man, the phenomenally popular talk-radio host who had used his bully pulpit to incite one of the world's most politically docile populaces into marching for its future...
...dark burqa, into a cramped schoolroom in the New York City borough of Queens. The class she was addressing was organized by the U.S. Center for World Mission and packed with eager evangelical Christian students wanting to learn how to be missionaries in a foreign country. The black-clad "Shafira" was gamely trying to explain her faith...
...There's more. The presence of so many kids at nudist resorts has resulted in a proliferation of rules governing naked behavior. Nudists may ignore the No. 1 precept of human interaction since Adam and Eve, but they have overlaid their world with other strictures. One cannot walk around clad only in underwear, which is considered titillating. At Cypress Cove, nude dancing is forbidden. Nudists are supposed to carry towels to cover seat cushions...
...wildly varying routes and styles of service. Indigo and an unprecedented transatlantic Boeing Business Jet service offered by Germany's Lufthansa Airlines are aimed at executive travelers. Others, like JetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways, are profitably targeting bargain hunters. Some are even more offbeat: Want to fly among skimpily clad hostesses from Atlanta or Newark, N.J., for a golf weekend in Myrtle Beach, S.C.? Try Hooters Air. Feel the urge to disrobe once you're airborne? Fly Naked...
...Forry, who thought O’Donnell would wait until after graduation to get engaged, thought nothing of the symbol. She was shocked to hear the preacher offer his congratulations on a congregation member’s engagement and see O’Donnell stroll down the aisle, clad in a tuxedo. “She was crying when she saw me,” he says. “She couldn’t believe it.” But O’Donnell had known that she would be emotional and stood ready to dry her tears with...