Word: unclad
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...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...
When a Buenos Aires theater staged the première last week of a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atómica (rough translation: Hot-Stuff Barbara), the Catholic Action youth movement stepped out to show its disapproval. Reason: some of the mambo dancers in the movie were virtually unclad. Throwing stink bombs and shooting off firecrackers, the Catholic Action members started a rowdy uproar in the theater that ended with eleven injured, 92 arrested...
...Widener "drug-store novels" differ a great deal from the present "breast-sellers" offered in pocket-book form on bookstands today. They are almost always bound with a brightly-colored cover, and are printed on coarse, cheap paper. While the more recent drugstore favorites feature ill-clad or unclad women, the Widener volumes make an appeal via racy titles...