Word: sheathed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny radio transmitter in a 1982 black Jaguar used by "Tony Ducks" Corallo. In a parking lot outside a restaurant in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island, one agent carefully opened a door, pressing the switch that would otherwise turn on the interior lights. Another helped him spread a plastic sheath over the seats so that rain would not spot the upholstery. With a stopwatch at hand, they quickly removed the dashboard, installed the bug, replaced the dash and closed the car door. The operation took 15 minutes...
...When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best Man John F. Kennedy Jr. blew his sister a kiss. Jackie, wearing a fitted, pale lime green sheath, bit her lip and struggled to hold back tears as she walked out of the church on the arm of Uncle Ted. He has walked other nieces down other aisles, and his avuncular presence is depended upon and appreciated. Still, one can safely guess that the old Kennedy New Frontiersmen...
...developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue's protective patina in the 1960s and cannot be removed without endangering the delicate copper sheath. But then again, what 100-year-old lady does not have an age spot here and there...
...Amid a sheath of statistics, pepperoni pizza, and the overstuffed armchairs in Lowell House's JCR, the key organizers of this year's first Harvard-Radcliffe Blood Drive met last night to discuss why their campaign strategy had gone awry...
...word and gesture so that it plays for a modern audience. In Much Ado Hands digs deep into a bag that must be marked TRICKS THAT WORK. A courtly messenger declaims his prose in an Elmer Fudd accent; Benedick parades his manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only...