Word: claddings
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ragged suits-that had been the garb of the original rebels in 1954. and finishing with a trim military band and disciplined, well-drilled detachments clad in U.S.-style fatigue uniforms and armed with Communist-made recoilless rifles, machine guns, mortars and bazookas...
...ceremony at Western Railway Station in Vienna last week recalled Austria's ancient grandeur. The Viennese Guards, clad in grey uniforms with silver fourra-geres, stood at attention as a trumpet blared. Beside them on the platform waited Austrian President Adolf Scharf and Chancellor Alfons Gorbach as the train slid in bearing West Germany's President Heinrich Liibke for a five-day state visit...
...Clad only in a bathing suit, Gary Hauptli, 8, was running toward the patio of a friend's home in Seattle. But Gary never reached the patio; he smashed into a sliding glass door that had been closed only minutes before to keep barbecue smoke from blowing into the house. The thin glass exploded in a shower of jagged fragments. It took doctors two hours to make the 64 stitches in Gary's head, wrists and legs...
...morning last week, Pope John XXIII, walking briskly, crossed the threshold of the Vatican's Consistory Hall, followed in order of seniority by 29 purple-clad cardinals. As soon as he was seated on his throne, the papal master of ceremonies cried out, in accordance with" the rubrics of this historic ritual, "Extra omnes [Everyone outside]" A host of attending bishops and monsignori, the chamberlains and members of the Noble Guard bowed to the throne and withdrew; the doors were closed. The Pope, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, and absolute ruler of the largest religious body in Christianity...
...main drag, bright yellow, white, red, blue and green neon signs festoon the dirty façades of grubby joints. In front of each stands a swarthy doorman, generally wearing baggy dark pants and a soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila, gin and vodka of local manufacture, adulterated whisky, and tiny bottles of beer that...