Word: camel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czar of all the Russias. After preparing at Eton, he had been to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Heidelberg, Oxford and Cambridge. Since, in fact, he was born in the New York area of indeterminate parentage, he always refused to speak Russian in public. But he was scrupulously elegant, with a camel's hair accent and a mill-racing brain. He lived on both coasts of North America and made occasional trips into what he called "the interior" in search of funds. During his numerous sojourns in jail, he carried a walking stick during exercise hours. Because he said...
Dressed in the same clothes, and wearing a bandolier of bullets across his chest, Badr told of his escape to a group of 16 newsmen who huddled on mats in a camel-skin tent at an encampment a few miles inside Yemen near the Saudi Arabian border. While dagger-wielding, shouting followers raised a din outside, Badr cheerfully predicted that he would be back on the throne in a few weeks. He claimed to command 20,000 tribesmen...
...Yemen's mud brick capital, the forces of the revolution last week passed in review. Tribesmen galloped through the streets, wearing brass-trimmed bandoleers, with curved, wide-bladed djambias thrust into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and armed with muskets dating back to Napoleon, and new army recruits in crumpled khaki uniforms. From the second-floor window of his headquarters, the architect of the revolution, Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, cried: "The corrupt monarchy which ruled for a thousand years was a disgrace to the Arab nation and to all humanity. Anyone...
...FIFTH AVENUE here in Harvard Square is enthusiastic about camel hair for this fall. They're showing full fashioned camel hair sweaters with saddle shoulders from England, including a V-neck pullover at $24.50 and a cardigan for $29.50. Sak's also features the 100 per cent camel hair wool blazer. This natural shoulder model with three pearl buttons and flap pockets sells for $69.50. Topping off a three piece camel ensemble is a handsome cotton or heek suede outerwear jacket with up sleeves and a full sherpa lining. The shawl collar, raglan shoulder, slash pockets, and leather buttons light...
...Pete does not share in royalties from TV commercials and product endorsements that bring in as much as $100,000 a year to such sluggers as Roger Maris. Runnells did a few Camel cigarette commercials in 1960 and 1961, but his contract was not renewed; he now smokes Lucky Strikes...