Word: brassi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide awake and wanted to talk, so debriefers were sent over to get on with the processing. Meantime, the first next-of-kin calls were being put through to the U.S. "Say, Honey, it's me," one prisoner stammered. "I hope you haven't burned all your brassières." "Hi, Mom." "It's been a long time." The calls, which were to be limited to 15 minutes, averaged...
...from the Communist East. No fewer than 7,000,000 tourists from East Germany and other Soviet-bloc countries swarmed into Czechoslovakia this year in pursuit of luxuries not readily available at home. These include Spanish bananas and oranges, Italian shoes, Camembert cheese and Beaujolais from France, and Czechoslovak brassières and girdles that, at long last, are beginning to encase Russian and East European flab in tough new elastic...
...neatly turned insights. Plastered with fading banners left over from the Cultural Revolution, Canton "has a face of shabby militancy." The sight of people eagerly studying Maoist literature, Terrill suggests, "would surely delight an eighteenth-century philosophe; the 'Word' is sovereign." He was amused to find that brassières, "though widely available in shops, were not, it seemed, in frequent...