Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours later that night, Brigadier General Hussein Azemudeh, the thin-lipped military prosecutor, drove up to the barracks and sent for the prisoners. Two months ago nine of the ten prisoners had been splendidly uniformed brother officers of his. Now, in shapeless prison garb, heads shaven, stubbly faces pale, they shuffled in. The general glared at the first man, and said harshly: "You are called here to make your will. Know what I mean?" Colonel Siamak cleared his throat. "Yes," he said, "I know." The appeal had failed...
...Sisters of the Divine Spirit, a newly established U.S. Roman Catholic order for teaching and social work, with relatively relaxed rules (including a yearly vacation for members), showed off a radically modernized habit (see cut) that looked more like a chic town suit than nuns' garb. Designed in accordance with Pope Pius XII's plea for more rational, comfortable dress among nuns, the new habit features an oxford grey skirt (slightly flared and coming just below the knee), a loose box jacket, a white Peter Pan-collared blouse, a black pillbox hat, black leather pumps with medium heels...
...truck on which they traveled was so overcrowded that they rode atop the driver's cab. At that time, Chou-as well as the other Chinese Communist leaders-wore peasant garb and espoused poverty. Chou was very friendly; Mao Tse-tung even asked my husband to come back and organize a Y.M.C.A. in Yenan. Both, however, told my husband that no Christian could join the Chinese Communist Party...
Last week, as part of a general effort "to improve relations between us and the British." Colonel G. F. McGuire, deputy commander of the Britain-based U.S. Third Air Force, ordered airmen of his command to modify their off-duty garb "in accordance with local custom." The only exception: attendance at such ail-American affairs as ball games. There, zoot suits, Harry Truman shirts and other native costumes may still be worn without penalty...
...House's intellectual martyrdom is that, alone among the House, it can fill its library on the Saturday evening of a big dance. This fable is perfectly true. Last Saturday, the evening of the big Lowell House formal, while one third of the House was prancing around in formal garb, and leading their dates to a served dinner in the dining room, another, smaller contingent was busy in the library...