Word: claddings
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Madame Bandaranaike whizzed through her constituency in a black Mercedes, always accompanied by a cheerleader who helped with the applause. She was usually clad in a blue sari (her party color), and spoke from platforms adorned with a picture of her husband, the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Though she no longer wept in public when recalling her husband, Madame was still campaigning in his memory, promising to follow his policies, which "stood for the middle path in politics." She argued that "the cooperation of the Marxists...
...sealing the borders, Hoare planned to end the flood of Communist-bloc arms pouring into the Congo. Going the other way were picked bands of Simbas wearing their monkey-skin headdresses. Three weeks later they would return, clad in a motley array of khaki uniforms and armed with the weapons they had been taught to use in a crash program officered by Algerian "volunteers...
Nurses and pajama-clad patients jammed the east windows of Stillman Infirmary, phase II construction workers suspended riveting and leaned from beams, six young men hoisted themselves onto a Phillips Book Store ledge, one dungareed undergraduate swayed precariously in the slender branches of Holyoke Street's lone sapling...
When the Viet Minh were waging their bloody battle against the French, Red China constructed a road and rail network into North Viet Nam. Since then, blue-clad Chinese laborers have been hard at work on roads linking Yunnan and Laos. With the aid of these routes, the Red Chinese colossus is believed mobile enough to move twelve divisions-about 120,000 men-from China to Hanoi in a month's time...
...when Viet Cong guerrillas opened fire in the assault that flared into an international incident. "That sounds like mortars," said Mauldin to his hutmate, an Army colonel. Ignoring instructions to dive into the nearest bunker, Mauldin sprinted into action while chattering out loud in English as a precautionary measure: clad only in shorts, he was eager not to be mistaken for one of the Viet Cong, who habitually sport such abbreviated battle dress...