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Word: ascots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astrology. Damaska radiated enthusiasm from his bright blue eyes and his wiry brown hair that effervesced from his head. He wore agray-brown suit, a blue-and-green. striped-and-flowered tie, and a full beard. Lutin wore a pink shirt and a collarless blue sports jacket. An ascot was tied around his neck, and his greasy black thinning hair was stretched sparsely across his scalp, painfully trying to cover the bald spots until it could relax in a thick growth at the bottom of his neck. When I asked him what types of people came for horoscopes...

Author: By Archibald Macleish, | Title: Astrology | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Hollander returned the favor by coming pretty much as he was too - blue velvet jacket, white silk shirt with ascot, bell-bottom trousers and long hair. To him, that kind of dress is no mere gimmick: "I feel hypocritical in tails, it's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Rebel in Velvet | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Henley has been in the back of our minds all year," said Sullivan. "It's quite something to see. As a social event it is comparable to Ascot or a cricket Test Match at Lord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lights to Enter Three Regattas In Summer Tour | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

Bachelor Trudeau drives a fast sports car, skis, skindives, holds a judo brown belt and dresses in a highly individualistic style; he was once reprimanded by ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker for wearing a sports shirt and ascot in Parliament. But he is also a widely traveled law professor and economist and -very important-a bilingual Québecois who gets along as well at the mannerly teas of the English-speaking majority as at mercurial political rallies in Quebec and Montreal. A firm opponent of separatism, Trudeau believes that the only way to discourage it is to make French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Contender from Quebec | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Miniskirts may be popular with the women who wear them, but in the past few months they have been denounced by ex-President Eisenhower, condemned by Designer Coco Chanel, blasted by King Hassan II of Morocco, banned in Tunisia, prohibited in Rumania, and ridiculed at Ascot. Nowhere, however, has the reaction been as cutting as in the populous copper-belt towns of northern Zambia. There, thigh-high skirts have become the objects of a fanatic "culture campaign" directed by local members of President Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Minicultural Revolution | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

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