Word: beret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palmy time of year in Puerto Rico, when fugitives from the mainland crowd the island's modernistic concrete hotels, hoping to warm their bones and tan their hides. Virtually every dollar the tourists spend somehow turns a profit for three forceful brothers named Ferré (rhymes with beret...
They take credit for new beauty trends too. They popularized the "beret-bang coiffure," for which girls snip their bangs along the jaunty angle of a beret; the Churchill sisters claim they see it everywhere. Their book, Reba and Bonnie's Guide to Glamour and Personality, was used as the official reference for the 1962 Miss Universe contest...
...strong nose and chin, Harkins looks every inch the professional soldier. Under him serve some 5,000 U.S. troops (soon to be raised to 8,000) including the U.S. Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...bright pink suit and a mink beret, Jacqueline Kennedy set out for Buckingham Palace and lunch with Queen Elizabeth II. "I'm feeling full of beans and very excited," she said. "It's a great honor." Afterward, pressed for further comment, she said diplomatically: "I am deeply honored to have been invited by the Queen to lunch. I thought the Queen's clothes were just lovely." Late that day-after a visit to an antique shop in London's Fulham Road, where she purchased 20 pieces of 18th century French and English china-Jackie headed home...
...local populace to survive, the Special Forces are sternly schooled in the techniques of staying out of trouble in foreign countries. Carousing, and consorting with native women are taboo. Says one veteran of South Viet Nam: "We haven't room for the man who wears his beret at a rakish angle, swaggers into a bar and starts telling everyone he's an American superman. That's when the job goes to hell...