Word: beret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Work. True stories of Brown at work are becoming legends of European labor. In the darkened Lamand Café, in the French mining center of Lens, Brown met in 1946 with six miners. Their leader, tough, 76-year-old Henri Mailly, wore a bullet-holed beret, newly ventilated by a Communist potshot. Said Mailly: "The Communists have everything, even our old union building. But we are willing to fight." An organization campaign was laid that might, with a key man in each...
...Zeno, now 52, presided over it all like an unconventional patriarch, counseling his children, praying with them, and playing his accordion for them. Instead of his clerical soutane, he wore a beret and turtleneck sweater. Unfortunately, he was never able to dodge conventional economics. With most of its citizens too young to earn enough money to support the colony, Nomadelphia accumulated a disastrous debt of 310 million lire (nearly $500,000). By last month the creditors were growing restless...
...Santa now, Maureen," we will usually greet the girl with a joyous, "Oh, I remember you! You're Maureen" There are many other ruses. If a boy has a shirt labelled "Steve," it is safe to assume that that is his name; if a girl wears a Girl Scout beret, we can confidently ask her how she's doing in the troop. If she carries a new pocketbook, we say, "Oh, what a pretty purse! You didn't have that last year, did you?" A boy who asks for a toy gas station can be queried, "You mean for your...
...sharpest blades in 1920 Paris was a young Polish-born painter named Moise Kisling. He wore his hair in a fringe, would duel at the drop of a beret, threw strenuous parties in his shabby studios. "He's the swellest guy in the world," wrote Kiki, queen of the Montparnasse models, in her diary. Kisling returned the compliment by faithfully reproducing her generous curves in his solidly painted canvases. Last week Artist Kisling, now an energetic 60, was having his first Paris show in 15 years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called...
...visitors' gallery, during the first session of Ireland's newly elected Parliament last week, a girl in a white blouse and green beret sat working at sums. As each of the 14 independent members who held the balance of power in the new government got up to speak, the busy spectator made a mark under the name "Dev" or "Costello." In the elections, two weeks before, Dev's party had won 69 seats; all other parties and the independents together had won 78. Unless the independents now voted for Prime Minister John Costello, he would...