Word: clips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This new novel took 13 years to write and is well worth it. Based on an actual 1889 Paris murder, it offers a long, luxuriant plunge into the gaslit fin-de-siecle world, a time of clip-clopping hansom cabs, plush interiors, swan-necked women in little tilted hats, and dandified men ready to throw away their lives for love...
Accurate shooting and the Crimson's revised offensive strategy were crucial factors in the win. The varsity split the nets at a 55 per cent clip, while their opponents could only manage 45 per cent. Throughout the game Harvard's break away tactics kept Dartmouth on edge, destroyed the Green's offensive...
...million issued since 1860 crossed their counters. Where were all the others? Many are lost or lying forgotten in toy cupboards. Some are on kitchen shelves, since British housewives believe nothing makes a jar of preserved fruit so airtight as jamming a farthing under the spring clip on each top. Others are holding up girls' stockings, a farthing being just the right size to substitute for a missing thingumbob on a garter belt. Millions of others have been laid by as souvenirs. There may yet come a day when British moppets will not know the meaning of the traditional...
...Canada's growing spirit of economic nationalism, the Diefenbaker government's solution is to clip the U.S. eagle's tail feathers and declare economic independence. To the embarrassment-and distress-of the U.S., Canadian businessmen scrambled after trade with the Communist regime in Cuba, stayed strictly neutral in the politics and the battle. And then there is the Canadian government's year-end emergency budget, which promised a boost for Canadian business at the expense of U.S. capital investors. To Canadian enterprises went $60 million worth of tax concessions designed to prime Canadian investment at home...
...black shoes. "Hi, Daddy," she said. "Aren't you going to come in?" Daddy blushed scarlet beneath his tan, murmured his answer ("In a few minutes") as he helped his daughter on with the outsize shoes, grinned at reporters: "I didn't plan this." As Caroline clip-clopped back into the house, somber Bill Fulbright was smiling as broadly as anyone there...