Word: ill-clad
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...British soldiers had been harshly treated. From many of them the ill-clad ELAS men took uniforms and boots...
...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
...Japs had taken stubborn Hengyang, key point on the Hankow-Canton railroad. Now, instead of continuing directly south toward Canton, they flung 120,000 troops southwest along the spur line toward Kweilin. An underprivileged Chinese Army, ill-nourished, ill-armed, ill-clad, stood before them, the Fourteenth's flyers hammered them desperately from above...
...Trenton & Princeton, 1776-77. Washington, whose men were ill-clad and unenthusiastic, crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, 1776, to surprise the British at Trenton, then pushed on to occupy Princeton. These actions fired the Revolutionists' morale, saved Philadelphia, broke Howe's plans, made Washington's reputation, so that he became the real leader of the Revolution. U.S. casualties: 40 killed, 100 wounded...
...rather than to defense, which accounted directly for only 300,000 bales) were due last year's record 8,000,000-bale domestic market. But Secretary Wickard looked beyond the laboratory for his "agricultural adjustment." It involved the New Deal's No. 1 pre-defense friend: the ill-clad, ill-housed "third of a nation...