Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light, and people kissed (cheek to social cheek) who had never kissed before. As everyone knows-if reminded-Christmas Day itself marks the birth of Christ. But it is sometimes hard to remember in the weeks before. Instead, the chief big man seems to be that fellow Santa Claus, the patron saint of giving. Pillowed and pastyfaced, he chortles from a myriad of department-store thrones, and pasteboard likenesses beam from drugstore windows. Under his spell, the battle cry in thousands of U.S. homes becomes...
...countries have recognized a good thing when they see it. Two weeks ago, some 100,000 mothers and children crowded into Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo Park and watched a helicopter approach. Everyone burst into a frenzied shout when it finally touched down and disgorged a befurred Santa Claus, sweating gamely in the 90° heat...
...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, a courtly Manhattan publisher who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...months she's been smiling prettily through in public, trying to sell the Dutch people on her engagement to German Commoner Claus von Amsberg. What The Netherlands' Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, says in private sounds a bit different. That's how Liesbeth Lobensteijn, 16, a Hague high school student, told it after she and a group of fellow students paid a visit on the princess. As Liesbeth reported in her school paper: "One of us said, 'Of course you always managed to keep that unbeatable smile,' but the princess answered with a gesture like...
Mann looked like a nightmare version of Santa Claus: a mop of white hair, a red, emphatic nose, and a tangle of untamed whiskers that parted beneath his chin. He also had the noisy energy of a stern-wheeler and the predacity of a buccaneer...