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There is one practical difficulty about having one's face and head covered in public which may be illustrated by simply wearing a ninja type head-cover while walking down the street.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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The militant statement identified the purported bomber as Ayyub al-Tishan and carried his picture, showing him dressed in a white Arab robe and head-cover and pointing to a photograph of a tanker on a laptop.
Al Qaeda Claims Suicide Attack On First Japanese Target 2010
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There is one practical difficulty about having one's face and head covered in public which may be illustrated by simply wearing a ninja type head-cover while walking down the street.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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There wasn't a veil or a head-cover among the women, one or two of whom were quite stylish.
Among the Believers 1981
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There wasn't a veil or a head-cover among the women, one or two of whom were quite stylish.
Among the Believers 1981
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We lay down on the slopes with our heads downhill, and kept the enemy well away, taking the opportunity to improvise some sort of head-cover whenever their fire slackened.
The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer
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Every sentinel by day will be provided with a head-cover to blend with the ground (this may be improvised), and while observing the ground to the front will remain perfectly still.
Military Instructors Manual Oliver Schoonmaker
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They did amazing things, toiling in the darkness under abominable shell-fire, and by daylight had built communication trenches with head-cover from the crater lips to our front-line trenches.
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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"It's a good foot and a half I have of head-cover, and I'm thinking it's soon we will be needing it, and all the rest we can get."
Action Front Boyd Cable 1910
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In some of the pits, to give head-cover, loopholes of sandbags were made, though in most cases this was not needed, owing to the concealment of the bushes.
The Defence of Duffer's Drift Ernest Dunlop Swinton 1909
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