Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within five minutes of the second stanza, however, the Hawks had clawed back to a 36-36 tie. Harvard's starting five-still without injured point guard Calvin Dixon-didn't play poorly they just looked a little rusty on their shooting after the long...
...crops for cash payments of $6 to $20 an acre. If destroying newly planted crops seemed to violate every American tradition-and it did-Wallace was even more furiously criticized for deciding to slaughter 6 million baby pigs rather than let them grow to full size. The son of Calvin Coolidge's Agriculture Secretary, an eminent plant geneticist and an idealist with presidential aspirations, Wallace was as appalled as anyone by the butchery. It reflected not the ideals of "any sane society," he complained, but an emergency caused by "the almost insane lack of world statesmanship" in stabilizing food...
...roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years. "A beautiful something in suede," he says, "is more like a collector's item than a piece of clothing." Ralph Lauren and Anne Klein both use suede...
...have a $300 chamois dress and, you know, it's hand washable. It's also great for cleaning records." Some leather buffs use an art gum eraser on stains, while others maintain that leather should be permitted, like a fine old wine, to mellow, undisturbed. Calvin Klein agrees. He has been wearing the same Calvin Klein suede shirt for more than five years...
Says starting guard Bob Ferry: "I guess we've showed that the bench could come through, but Donald's been playing well in practice; he and Calvin will be back...