Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daddy") Amin fled Uganda in 1979 with his wife and 23 children for sanctuary in Saudi Arabia. Occasionally he dons traditional Arab garb and joins other Ugandan exiles for coffee in a downtown Jeddah hotel. A devout Muslim, Amin lives quietly in a modest villa outside the city, tending a vegetable patch and feeding his goats and chickens...
...thought that if we were going to bring in women as members that we should do it with some grace," he said. "An initiation has some amount of ritual and traditional garb, like club ties, and if you bring women in as members you should think through how you will make the rituals appropriate...
...Arab as Unruly Child. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) remains the best-known example of the Arab as a political naif in need of tutelage from a wiser Westerner, often adorned in Arab garb -- a better Arab than the Arabs themselves (see Indiana Jones I and III). Remove that "guidance," and get the chaos of Lawrence's end: Arab leaders at one another's throats in a scene reminiscent of the depiction of black politicians in the racist Birth of a Nation...
...cops will don official police garb, in theform of short-sleeved shirts and Bermuda shorts,and will sit atop marked bicycles...
Other Black students also tried to find and display their cultural heritage. First-years in the Class of 1972 refused to abide by the Harvard Union's dress code, which required a jacket and tie. Instead, the first-years wore traditional African garb...