Word: claddings
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Characteristic & Dry. Dick Russell drifted through the dining rooms soberly clad in black shoes and a neat dark blue suit. Then he took his place at one of the three head tables to deliver a characteristic speech, dry but sensemaking, warning against Government waste, defending states' rights and condemning corruption. He had to cut out his sharpest debating point because radio and television time was running out, and he didn't get to make it until a press conference two days later. The argument: he is the only Democratic candidate who can beat Eisenhower because he can carry...
...Widener "drug-store novels" differ a great deal from the present "breast-sellers" offered in pocket-book form on bookstands today. They are almost always bound with a brightly-colored cover, and are printed on coarse, cheap paper. While the more recent drugstore favorites feature ill-clad or unclad women, the Widener volumes make an appeal via racy titles...
...Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders' lines and were massing for a new attack. Suddenly a blank mortar shell exploded over the invaders' heads with a roar and a burst of smoke. The umpires stunned the Aggressors with a terse ruling: 1,600 of their men had just been put out of action; the exploding shell symbolized a devastating hit by a revolutionary new weapon, atomic artillery...
...much, then, for the first section's conclusions and recommendations; except for the limitations of the poll method of research, they are all but iron-clad. They illustrate lacks in General Education which, if allowed to continue, might seriously harm the program, and we hope that the Faculty Committee on General Education will see fit to act on them. The second section of the Report, which will be considered tomorrow, serves to add even more urgency to the Report's proposals...
First there was lolanthe, an Italian baron's daughter, who "clung to him grinding her mouth against his so that he felt bruised, her mouth, and the whole warm length of her, silken clad, so that he was scalded breast and thigh, shaken terrified kindled deathlost uncaring thinking for this I will be killed and at the same time that it was worth the dying, and boldly he freed his hands from about her waist and pushing aside her one garment caressed her bare flesh roughly almost brutally as though she were a peasant girl...