Word: garbed
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Wearing the red garb of a condemned man, a young Arab housepainter named Mahmud Hejazi last week waited nervously in Israel's Ramla jail for the decision that could send him to the gallows...
...ceremonial procedures evolved slowly, and gradually grew in number. For a long while now, the University Marshal has officially opened Commencement with the call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order," which follows the end of the procession. The Sheriff of Middlesex will then rise in his blue colonial garb, strike the stage three times with the scabbard of his sword and announce in a sharp Boston accent, "The meeting will be in order...
...involving a Negro civil rights leader and a white girl at S.N.C.C. headquarters in a Montgomery hotel. A policewoman said that she had witnessed interracial love-making on the lawn of St. Margaret's Hospital in Montgomery. Others claimed to have seen white men in priests' garb and white women dressed as nuns swigging whisky, and, in the case of one "priest," paying a girl $12 for her favors...
...Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's newest and most moderate leaders, wanted to make a good impression on the province he had inherited five months ago when Northern Rhodesia became independent. Kaunda accompanied the Litunga to the royal barge, where Sir Mwamawina switched his garb-from a frock coat, striped trousers and pearl-grey topper to the Royal Navy uniform his father had worn...
...trucked to the port of Vinh for staging, thence southwest to the border area, where they turn in all personal effects, including letters, which could identify them. The infiltrators exchange their equipment for guerrilla gear (such as rubber sandals, mosquito netting) and doff uniforms for the black-pajama garb of the Viet Cong...