Word: au
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.M. and the British Musicians Union, Kenton was not allowed to play in England. Not to be thwarted, 200 British fans flew in chartered planes to catch the show in Brussels, and at week's end, 3,000 more traveled to Dublin to catch Kenton's au revoir to Europe. "Over here," said Stan, "our music seems to be taken more seriously than back home...
...Federal Reserve Board expected its index of industrial production for Au gust to snap back to 238% of the 1935-39 average, after plantwide vacations had pulled it down to 2-33% in July from the June level...
...white peasant blouse (by Dior). Most of her songs are simple story songs, like the one about the girl who finds a kitten, puts it in her bodice, and attracts a good deal of male attention. But she also goes in for old rousers like Alouette and Au près de Ma Blonde. As she sings, her hands flicker gaily through the air, over her body, across her face, like the hands of a village girl telling a story at the well. She dislikes sadness and expresses the feeling in broad caricatures of moaning pop singers. Hers seems...
...days later mountaineers discovered Chulliat's body in a 500-ft. abyss. They also heard faint cries of "Au secours," but saw no one. The mountaineers rushed back down to Chamonix to round up a rescue party. That afternoon the party discovered Barbacki still perched on his ledge. They could not reach him at once; the melting snows were sending rocks crashing down the mountainside...
...week, amid singing and dancing in the street, Jimmy will inaugurate a new, $45,000 branch of his laundry, but this is hardly the whole measure of the change he has brought to Haiti. Dry-cleaning has cleared the way for two big mass-production tailoring shops in Port-au-Prince. Five haberdasheries have opened, and five more dry-cleaners have followed Jimmy into business. Women's ready-to-wear shops have mushroomed. Haiti's women now dress in rayon, taffeta and wool...