Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hastings Banda, 55. who today sits, pajama-clad, writing his memoirs in a comfortable Southern Rhodesian prison, spent most of his adult life in Britain, where he was a prosperous London physician with a large white practice. Yet, when he returned to his native Nyasaland (pop. 2.800,000, almost all black) in 1958 after 40 years of self-exile, thousands of Africans met his plane and cheered hysterically when he shouted the one Chinyanja word he still remembered: "Kwaca! [dawn]," the slogan of all Nyasaland nationalists who demand self-rule and separation from the Central African Federation...
Turning to the costumed Indonesians, Khrushchev playfully picked out a husky young man clad in the red polka-dot robes of the North Celebes, and tried a few wrestling holds on him to the delight of the crowd. Followed by Sukarno, Khrushchev climbed into the President's red Chrysler Imperial and drove to the vast Merdeka Palace through streets lined with 200,000 more people...
...response. Functioning as a kind of electoral college, close to 80,000 recently elected village councilmen were allowed to vote yes or no to the question: "Have you confidence in the President, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan?" No less than 95.6% put their approving mark beside a smiling multi-clad picture of the field marshal. Those who did not trust the field marshal had the choice of checking a blank blue space...
...tribesmen, clad in red-and-blue turbans, black pants and tunics, and weighted down with massive silver ankle-rings and foot-and-a-half-long hairpins, arrived with the jam, the boys at the Snow Leopard sent their Chinese agents to bid for the crop. Even though this has been a bad year for poppies-there was a two-month drought in the hills-the Meo are getting only the equivalent of $20 a kilo (2.2 lbs.). The same kilo, when it reaches the Laotian capital of Vientiane, will be worth $60; at Saigon in South Viet Nam it will...
...That I Will Not Do." In this mood, late in the week. De Gaulle appeared on television clad in his brigadier general's O.D. uniform decorated with the insignia of Free France and the Free French armed forces. "If I have put on my uniform to address you," he began, "it is to remind you that it is General de Gaulle who speaks as well as the head of state...