Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Island, Arthur Repetto, brother of the island's headman, found a ship's figurehead. Its ghostlike glimmer "skeered" him at first. When he went in he found a beautifully modeled maiden, nine feet high. Her hair was done up in a bun behind her head; a long cloak, which her left hand grasped, covered her dress. Her right hand held a lily to her bosom. Around her neck was carved a necklace of disks; a tasseled cord girdled her waist. On each arm was a bracelet hung with draperies. The wood was well preserved, with few barnacles...
...Developed by the Chemical Warfare Service to throw smoke and gas shells, it also lobs 24-lb. shells which carry more than 8 lb. of high explosives. But it owes its new and fearsome fame among Germans and Japs to its white phosphorus smoke shells. Originally used to cloak troops or positions with harmless white clouds, WP (white phosphorus) has become one of the great anti-personnel weapons...
Rain and darkness made an ideal cloak. In the hour before dawn the little vessel from Italy ran in close to the rocky Dalmatian coast and dropped its solitary passenger. Daniel De Luce, Associated Press correspondent, climbed into the wet woods without a sound, felt his way to the appointed rendezvous...
...Cloak & Dagger Man. The public learned to watch him after his spectacular trip to North Africa in October 1942. He went by British submarine, made contact with French patriots who eased the way for the November landings, got away to sea again after a ducking in the surf that lost $18,000 in gold. After winning his three stars, at 46, he was one of the youngest U.S. lieutenant generals...
Organized Defamation. " The attempt to cover political acts with a cloak of military necessity in this case will just not go down. Yet certain backstage French interests are trying, under this cloak, to foster their own interests and sabotage the De Gaulle-Giraud union. There is growing evidence that certain interests, fearful of public opinion in favor of General de Gaulle, have deliberately set out to guide, control and change that public opinion as the chief stumbling block in the consummation of their aims...