Word: cloakful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revived efforts against parietals were conducted in cloak-and-dagger secrecy and most committee members had no prior knowledge of what was coming up. No one was willing to comment publicly after the meeting, although Dean Ford said "both sides" raised questions...
...shuffling guards are ineptly led by Lance-Bombardier Terry Evans (David Warner), an insipid martinet who conceals his ambitions in a cloak of good intentions. He clings to cold-eyed discipline and survives solely on the hope that, if he avoids a mistake, the morning will finally bring his long-sought transfer to England for officers' training...
...Sobhuza's tiny (pop. 390,000), verdant land has waited patiently for its cut of independence. Last week a smiling King Sobhuza, surrounded by some 100 of his wives and dressed in a ceremonial headdress of lourie-bird feathers, a girdle of lion and leopard skins and a cloak made of oxtails, had his patience rewarded. British Commonwealth Secretary George Thompson handed Sobhuza the formal instruments of self-government, and Swaziland became the 28th independent member of the British Commonwealth...
...imitation of Columbus' first act when he landed in the New World, the frail figure in the scarlet cloak fell to his knees at the foot of the airplane ramp and kissed the concrete. With that dramatic gesture, Paul VI last week became the first Pope to set foot in South America, the only predominantly Roman Catholic continent. The Pope's journey was not an entirely joyous one. Though he received a warm and at times tumultuous welcome, the cause of his trip was a crisis. His central purpose was to try to prevent a disastrous worsening...
Worries Ahead. Still, little by little, the Vice President was shedding his cloak of amiable ambivalence. After more prodding by McCarthy, he released delegates bound to him by the unit rule, which in some states binds all delegates to one candidate. He then challenged his adversary to release McCarthy delegates in Oregon and Massachusetts, proving, when McCarthy backed away, that the issue went both ways and had been exaggerated from the beginning. Belatedly, McCarthy admitted that Humphrey's gesture would bring only about eight delegates to his side. When Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, undiplomatically...