Word: chic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trim garnishes wool or its jersey substitute. Used for cuffs, collars or buttons, camel color with mink trim leads the field, with rabbit hair, angora and black fox following. Most of these are detachable and can be switched from outfit to outfit. Such an outfit is considered just as chic as a favorite black taffeta or velvet...
...inbred dislike for position warfare, he stepped into the command with no illusions of cheap successes or quick victory. Little known outside France, he was a cold, distant figure when he arrived in Saigon and took steps to make himself inconspicuous and to avoid the press. With his chic blonde wife (a descendant of Joachim Murat, the Napoleonic King of Naples), he moved into the rambling residence of the commander in chief. ("Why," exclaimed Mme. Navarre when she first saw the big place, "it's like a railway station!") For weeks he toured the vast conglomerations of forts, villages...
...have turned their hands to many things besides kimonos, curved swords and block prints of Fujiyama; 2) Japanese art derives very largely from the Chinese (which had a 2,500-year head start), and in Japanese adaptations, the fire and depth of the greatest Chinese art often becomes mere chic...
...Chic & Ships. The signs of better economic conditions which the visitor sees are not illusions. Culturally and economically, Italy is enjoying something of a renaissance...
...number three-man, is at seven, with Bob Monks at six. Dick Carroll, last year's freshman 200-pound five-man, is in the same seat on this year's varsity, and senior Lee Rounder has shifted from the 1952 varsity six car to number four this season. sophomore Chic Halle is a three, Captain Phil DuBois is in his regular number two position, while Frank Huntington, another senior has moved up from JV three-man in 1952 to varsity bow this year. Al Lefkowitz is the Coxswain...