Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meshing French steel with German coal supplies, the Flick-De Wendel deal seems, at first blush, to hasten the pooling of Western Europe's heavy industry, which is the object of the Schuman Plan. Already, however, there are fears that it may create an international version of the old Flick cartel that the Allies had undone and Schuman Plan authority has promised not to reestablish...
...with a special rite: mix the ashes of a red lotus with milk drawn from a smoke-colored cow. Sure enough, not long after, Margayya meets Dr. Pal, a sociologist who has written a book called Bed-Life, or the Science of Marital Happiness. The first chapters make Margayya blush, but they also make him want to read on. Then the idea hits him: he publishes Dr. Pal's manuscript under the discreet title, Domestic Harmony...
...First Blush. In Wichita, Kans., officials declared a one-day moratorium on the usual traffic tickets which lead to fines, instead had policemen pass out tickets chiding errant motorists in bold red letters: "Shame...
...evidence unless he is working on it. But the material he may be inspecting or cataloguing would stand an ordinary layman's hair on end -elaborate, erotic instruments and devices from Japan, wildly obscene picture books, Austrian etchings and plaster models that would make a call girl blush...
...other popular passion is peek-a-boo mink. Couturiers advise a "blush of mink" to peek out from cuffs and high necks. A pelt or two in an "exciting" spot will turn the trick...