Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beirut to Elk City. Michael Shadid was born in a little stone hut on the olive-clad slopes of Mount Lebanon in Syria. He worked his way through the village school, later through the American University's high school in Beirut. Then young Michael went in steerage to New York, started peddling cheap jewelry. Within a few years he had saved $5,000, had combed almost every State east of the Rockies. But he wanted to be a doctor, so he tossed out his trinkets, went to medical school at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated, finally settled...
Elektro is seven feet tall, weighs 260 Ibs., is clad in gleaming aluminum. He is operated by 48 electrical relays (circuits actuated by current variations in other circuits) which control his eleven motors by remote control. He can walk forward or backward, with a peculiar limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing...
...Tudor manor, he horrified the architect by refusing to have leaded windows. Said he: "I'm not going to have a view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room clad only in khaki pants and moccasins, with green birch lice hopping playfully about his chest. He still held the ax in one hand; in the other, a book on philosophy which he was reading...
...divorced William Powell and Gable was no longer living with his wife. Countess di Frasso's guests had been asked to come in something white. Carole Lombard arrived in a white ambulance, wearing a white nightgown, lying on a white cot which was carried in by three white-clad interns. She and Gable danced together all evening. Later, Lombard had the ambulance decorated with a red heart and sent it to Gable. He had the motor supercharged and drove about in it for two years...
Although the Council's proposal for a virtually Iron-clad guarantee of admission to Juniors and Seniors was turned down, the Housemasters approved the general Principe of admitting a large number of upperclassmen...