Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only fifteen men live in the Monastery at the present time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...
...under the leadership of a former schoolteacher and insurance salesman named A. Z. Phizo, sharpened their native daos, collected an armory of ill-assorted and outdated British, U.S. and Japanese guns, and went to war, demanding complete independence. Jawaharlal Nehru, who likes to keep the skeletons in his own closet well hidden from the world, promptly sealed off the entire embattled area from the prying eyes of newsmen, both Indian and foreign, and dispatched 9,000 Indian troops to put down the trouble...
...fact seems to be that in its social structure, Greece is none too modern. A Girl in Black is an Ibsenic study of what 19th century Europeans called "the woman question," and from the screen it breathes the musty atmosphere of a long-shut closet-the mid-Victorian kind with a skeleton in it. The main point Director Cacoyannis makes is that "respectable people" in Greece are still locked in the closet of 19th century manners and morals, and he seems to think it high time they broke...
...recalls, "and the fellows wouldn't buy. When I walked in the next year they were playing poker, so I put down three tickets, and took the money out of the pot." Fearful of his persuasive tactics, many students would be expecting him and "they'd run in the closet and under the beds." The CRIMSON at one time complained against the coercive tactics of a Dunster House mailman, but Andy denies that he did more than persuade people...
Come-Apart Boat. A small molded mahogany boat that comes apart in the middle, so the ends can be stored in a clothes closet or carried in the trunk of the family car, was put on sale by Boston's George D. O'Day Associates, Inc. The boat, built by Fairey Marine Ltd. of Britain, comes with paddles or oars. Prices: $130 for a 7-ft.-4-in. one-seater model, $145 for the 10-ft. two-seater...