"clad" (was Re: "defecting")

[Mark Mandel]

It's not hard to find other examples. Here are a few. I'm pretty sure the
articles would have mentioned if that was ALL they were wearing, especially
the one from the Muckraker site. (Besides, that one has a head shot; he's
wearing at least a shirt, tie, and jacket.)

If "clad in X" ~ "X-clad" = 'wearing X', why should anyone infer that that's
all?

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DiGenova -- Clad In Cowboy Boots -- And Toensing Give AZ Presser, Then Meet
With Arpaio
<
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/digenova_--_clad_in_cowboy_boots_---_and_toensing.php
>

[...]
In an apparent effort to blend in, reports the Phoenix New Times, diGenova
wore cowboy boots. But aside from that, the limelight-seeking power couple
apparently didn't reveal too much.

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Head scarf-clad New Zealand Muslim woman barred from entering courtroom
<
http://blog.taragana.com/n/head-scarf-clad-new-zealand-muslim-woman-barred-from-entering-courtroom-157128/
>

WELLINGTON - A Muslim woman, who was barred from entering a Hastings
courtroom because she refused to take off her headscarf, will lodge a
complaint with the country’s Human Rights Commission.

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Jewellers robbery in Oxfordshire by burka-clad man: £150000 ...
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209006/Jewellers-robbery-Oxfordshire-burka-clad-man--150-000-designer-watches-stolen.html
>

Aug 27, 2009 ... A man wearing a burkha and two accomplices, who wore dark
clothes and had their faces covered, stole £150000-worth of Rolex, ..

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m a m

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> <
JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:

>
> OT:  from the Christian Science Monitor, referring to a Chinese
> hostage-rescue exercise:
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1020/p06s07-wosc.html
>
> "CHINESE COMMANDOS IN TRAINING VIDEO
> In the video, after a failed attempt at negotiating with the "pirates,"
> balaclava clad helicopter and small boat-borne troops storm a vessel and
> subdue its captors."
>
> Is that all the Chinese troops were wearing?
>
>     - Jim Landau
>

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