Word: attar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bride, according to Moslem custom, waited in another room during the wedding ceremony, attired in a rose-pink silk sari heavy with gems and gold embroidery, and wearing a pearl necklace and earrings. She had been bathed in rose water, massaged with scented sandalwood oil, perfumed with attar of roses; her nails, the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet were stained with henna...
...Attar of Skunk Juice. A significant share of the credit for the Teamsters' growth went to Dave Beck, the red-haired son of a hard-working carpet cleaner and a laundress, who entered the union's ranks by way of a job as a laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar...
...most drastic change in any school or department has occurred in what was the School of Architecture and is now the School of Design. A new dean appointed a few years attar I took office soon introduced new professors and a totally new outlook. This radical departure from traditional architectural and architectural instruction had first to maintain itself against heavy conservative pressures from outside. But before long others followed our lead; what eighteen years ago was a startling novelty is now accepted as basic doctrine in all architectural schools in the United state...
...archbishop's opponents, who in elude Labor Secretary Jóse Figueras am other highly placed politicians and businessmen, have not been able to attar] him openly as they have attacked Father Hogan. (Said a Manila newspaperman "They would be fighting the Pope him self.") Fortnight ago, however, after thi archbishop had left for Rome on a visit they had their first try. Eugenio Lopez publisher of the Manila Chronicle and ; wealthy friend of Figueras', editorially accused Vagnozzi of "arrogence and condescension" toward the Philippine government. Next day, in the Philippini Congress, Representative Estanislao Fernandez introduced a resolution...
...London magicians asked him over to do some tricks for them, was proving himself a skilled political prestidigitator as well. Standing for both the national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night and flew his own Beechcraft to a rally of voters in a tiny village 70 miles south of Jodhpur City...