Word: unclad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls remain unclad, the windows stay open, the shades are always up. No one seems to care...
...Your Hand, in 1941), who covered the North African campaign in World War II for The New Yorker, wrote 145 stories and articles for the Saturday Evening Post (including many of the "Cities of America" series and a description of his fight against crippling rheumatoid arthritis); when his unclad body was found in a tidal stream near his home, two months after he disappeared (police theorized that he drowned himself; he had told friends that he heard voices "telling him to dive into the river and swim and swim until he had reached the North Pole"); in Madison, Conn...
...Swimmers," the report advises, "should retain all clothing, particularly their shoes. The evidence shows that among groups of men, the partly unclad are attacked first, and usually in the feet ... As aimless splashing will attract sharks, swimming motions should be smooth and easy. Slow, coordinated strokes that keep the swimmer riding horizontally on the surface where he offers a difficult target are the safest...
...Unclad applicants were soon stepping up-and-down on a high bench to the authorities' rapid count. Both the method, and especially the results, were considered confidential information...
...museum gave no hint of the price it had paid for its new Aphrodite, but called the statue the artistic equal of the Uffizi's Medici Venus-which was probably copied from the same Greek original. It was Praxiteles who created the first unclad Aphrodite, around the middle of the 4th century B.C. Praxiteles' original is lost to art, but many a sculptor afterwards tried to give his work the same fluid lines and graceful posture. Of those who tried, the unknown sculptor of the Metropolitan Aphrodite is one of the few who even came close...