Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London ballroom, there were nearly 1,000 women like them-gossipping, knitting, spooning ices from paper cartons or drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like popcorn in jets of air; as the balls fell one by one through a small chute, the announcer intoned "Dinkey-doo, 22" or "Clickety-click, 66," and the air grew violet with suspense...
...Gulfport, Miss. motel last week cruised a Pontiac station wagon. There the owner unloaded a wondrous array of equipment: an indoor barbecue set and an outdoor barbecue set, a box of charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw...
Alexandre & Nathalie. Jackie's conquest of Paris was no haphazard campaign. No summit conference was more carefully planned than the First Lady's return to the city she had come to love as a student at the Sorbonne. In two truckloads of presidential luggage was a blinding array of gowns and jewels?and in making her plans. Jackie was keenly conscious of the fact that no tiny sag or hemline or stray strand of hair would escape the notice of the style-conscious people of Paris...
...school could serve as a placement outlet for students who now are scattered among a bewildering array of agencies. Monro said that it might also serve as a vital contact for Nigerian students who wish to study at the University. If the plan works out, he added, the "John Harvard School" might open its doors...
...knowing what Africans aspire to both economically and politically. Convinced that the African standard of living was bound to rise dramatically, the company began opening its giant Kingsway supermarkets and department stores in major West African cities as early as 1948, has gradually stocked them with a dazzling array of the latest Western products, from television sets to trousseaux. To help introduce Africans to these new luxuries, the Kingsway stores have used style shows and appetite-whetting advertising on the delights of modern living. As one measure of their success, United Africa executives cite the brisk sales of "ladies...