Word: claddings
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Early one recent morning, two groups of women clad in nightgowns could be glimpsed on New York television madly wheeling two brass bedsteads up and down a sun-drenched parking lot, squealing and squawking, while a well-dressed humanoid alternately shouted encouragement and insults from the sidelines...
Next morning, early-bird celebrity-watchers were accorded an unusual sight: the President of the United States, clad only in a pair of baby blue summer pajamas, opening his door to look for his copy of the Washington Post (it arrived late and was passed into the Ford home by a Secret Service man). Seemingly unchanged by the week's events, he chatted with neighbors and reporters, and signed autographs. When would he move into the White House? "I didn't ask yesterday," he replied. "I felt it would not be very appropriate...
When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...
...Tower's red-and-black-clad Yeoman Warders (the Beefeaters) scrambled to carry the injured out of the basement. Said Armory Warder Harry Harrington: "It was just like wartime. There was a woman with her leg off, kids with no clothes." When the dust settled, 37 persons, including eight children, had been injured. Two of the victims lost their legs, and a child's foot was found beneath the cannon. One British woman, Dorothy Household, 47, died later that night...
...thousands of mourners lined up eight abreast for miles in a warm winter rain outside the Congress Hall where the body of el Líder (see following story) lay in state in the Blue Chamber. They waited for up to 24 hours for a glimpse of his body clad in army uniform, medals and sash of office. Many fainted from emotion or exhaustion. Government aid stations treated no fewer than 17,800 people as the original one day of viewing was extended to two because of the miles-long crowd...