Word: apricot
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...Hungary still stands officially condemned by the U.N. (Thant's predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had refused a similar invitation in 1957.) At the same time, a group of 29 Western newsmen who had toured Hungary for five days were greeted effusively by Deputy Premier Gyula Kallai, who hinted, over apricot brandy and pastry, that the Hungarian government might permit Josef Cardinal Mindszenty to leave his sanctuary in the U.S. legation, where he took refuge in November 1956, if the U.S. is prepared to consider "betterment of relations between the two governments...
Seaborg worked his way through U.C.L.A. with a multitude of jobs ranging from stevedore to apricot picker, then moved on to the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work. He won his Ph.D. in chemistry with a learned thesis: The Inelastic Scattering of Fast Neutrons. After graduation he stayed on at Berkeley, went happily into the laboratory of the late great chemist, Gilbert Newton Lewis, as an assistant. A popular teacher, Seaborg advanced swiftly up the academic ladder, finally becoming chancellor of the university in 1958. At the same time, he was a leading figure in the university...
Colors show a reaction against last year's brilliance. Pink and purple, though still blindingly around, are moving aside for brown mixed with black and other softer combinations. A fashion show put together by the buying house Felix Lilienthal & Co., highlights such colors as cognac, pumpkin, mustard and apricot. Mollie Parnis and Hannah Troy are two of many showing soft brown, smoky green, and blue (robin's egg, peacock) for daytime. Arthur Jablow's collection by David Kidd includes suits in browns from palest beige through butterscotch to ebony, while Jane Derby combines navy and green. Though...
...Bohan's hip-hugging skirts, exotic colors ("Laburnum yellow," "Provence apricot,"), and infinite attention to detail and neatness, generally embracing the flapper trend, stunned the salon and sent reporters into paroxysms of joy. "But Marc Bohan is wonderful," cried a converted Eugenia Sheppard. "Five minutes after the show started, I felt like a cat before a saucer of cream...
...conduct during an exam by signing a statement, a practice termed "high-school" and "as ridiculous as the loyalty oath." Nevertheless, few students have been accused of cheating. In the most recent case, four years ago, a girl was reported to have concealed notes in a box of dried apricots. The accusation was never proven to anyone's satisfaction, and the girl graduated from Radcliffe with her academic honor and her apricot box intact...