Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noticias angrily denounced Nehru as a misguided forerunner of Communism. "The spectacular show staged by Indian imperialism ... is nothing but an episode ... of the subjugation of Asia to the sinister disintegrating forces of Russia," it went on. "Portugal will not let this sordid spoliation, which also affects the whole Christian West, be accomplished without denouncing it to the world by raising its voice and shedding its blood...
...summer of anxiety for G.I. wives in West Germany. On the heels of Christian Dior and the Flat (or raised) Look came Colonel John H. Dilley and the Proper Look...
...months after he died (430 A.D.), the invading Vandals took Hippo, then a major North African strongpoint. In the ages that followed, the great cities of man crumbled, but their citizens found a spiritual home in Saint Augustine's City of God. To this day, Christian churches of all denominations draw upon the theological system that Augustine tirelessly nailed down before the storm broke. Yet the 20th century is haunted by a question: Is Christian civilization going the way of the Roman Empire? Perhaps, say prophets such as Britain's Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. Surely, said a Christian...
...pearl grey, upholstered, perfumed room in Paris' Avenue Montaigne, the buyers broke into a storm of bravos. Soon the news was pouring out to a waiting world: "Christian Dior today dropped the waistline to the hips, flattened the bust and sent women's fashions back to the Jazz Age of the 1920s . . . Dior has abolished bosoms...
...biggest fashion change since the time seven years ago when the same Christian Dior decreed the "New Look." The news was calculated to alarm housewives, delight dress merchants and throw husbands into mumbling despondency. For no amount of patching, mending or letting out, trimming, tacking or tucking, no gusset, gore, or gather could make last year's dress into this fall's Dior mode. In upstairs closets from Spokane to Athens, Copenhagen to Rome, millions of dresses would suddenly become "that old thing," their value destroyed with a swiftness and efficiency that no moth could hope to match...