Word: garb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transport planes carried about 90 commandos in camouflage garb and another 90 crew members. Following an undisclosed route, the small air fleet droned along as low as 150 ft. to foil Iranian radar as it approached its first staging site in the desert near the isolated village of Posht-e Badam. Other planes are reported to have helped by jamming Iranian detection systems...
Waugh's satire would not be lost on Wilfred Thesiger, who wandered through some of the world's most hostile wastes for nearly 50 years with little more than the native garb on his back, some medicines, a few books, a camera and a rifle. Thesiger, now almost 70 and based in Kenya, is the last of the exotic British adventurer-writers whose exclusive number included Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence. These chameleons assumed the language, dress and habits of their tribal hosts for deeply emotional as well as practical reasons. "Like many English travelers," Thesiger confesses...
...sick conclusion. Pacino emerges from the close, dark den on Christopher St. into the airy, white space of his girlfriend's apartment. Having finally shed his leather garb, he shaves, staring at his image in the ubiquitous mirror, confronting his self a last time, peeling away his homosexual mask. His ordeal has ended, the beast has been crushed, he is again normal...
...routine of the schools is almost military in nature. Except when they are working in the fields (usually about three hours a day), the youths are dressed in blue uniforms with red kerchiefs and red berets, the standard garb of Cuba's own "young pioneers." The students are roused at 6 a.m., take breakfast (typically ham, bread and milk) in carefully ordered sittings at the school's mess hall. They are held responsible for the neatness of their dorms, which are crowded with double-decker bunks; each student has shelves by his bed to store books and clothing...
...defeat was nothing compared to the three last-minute brawls which punctuated it. I sat there, watching guys I knew squaring off at the blue line, listening to the bitter chants of "Harvard Sucks" ring the Garden rafters, wondering how all of this could be guised in Beanpot garb...