Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over at Wadsworth House, where Washington once slept, ghosts of American patriots wearing tricorn hat and cloak have not haunted the colonial building in at least 25 years...
When the affair wrapped up, I spent twenty minutes playing pop culture archaeologist in the coat room, finally finding my overcoat underneath a woman's cloak made from the pelts of 200 possums. At least that's what it said on the label...
...Pretoria government has long since learned that the more it condemns Tutu, the more the world honors him. In late 1984, for example, after a particularly vigorous government campaign in which one Cabinet minister warned him against committing "wicked acts under the cloak of religion," Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The government would undoubtedly love to ban him or arrest him, but officials are concerned about the price the country would pay in world opinion...
Flamboyantly garbed in a white cloak, purple shirt and black jacket, Gaddafi paused at one point during his speech to allow young Libyan women dressed in battle fatigues to chant cheerleader-style, "Down, down, U.S.A." Announcing that he planned to consult with his Libyan "people's committees" about withdrawing from the nonaligned, he called the summit a mere exchange of courtesies. "We meet," he said. "We eat together, we travel long distances and laugh together. In the cause of freedom we should not be nice to each other...
When unearthed in 1861 from a German quarry, Archaeopteryx seemed an ideal argument for the then new theories of evolution. Its reptilian brain and scaly head, combined with an avian wishbone and cloak of feathers, led many scientists to hail it as a missing link between reptiles and birds. But Protoavis has even more birdlike features than its younger cousin, Chatterjee believes. While both species have wishbones and forelimbs elongated into wings, he points out, the older fossil also has a bird's wide eye sockets, a large braincase and a breastbone designed to anchor muscles used in flight. Tiny...