Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics of his policies at lunch, and he often displayed enough personal charm to win them over. But he finally tired of the game, grumbling, "I'm not a bear to perform in a circus." Wednesday mornings at 10, the Cabinet gathers around a table covered with red cloth. De Gaulle has before him a dossier on the subject under discussion and will interrupt a Cabinet minister to stress details he thinks are being overlooked. When he feels a speaker is talking too long or to no point, De Gaulle drums his fingers irritably on the table. When...
...girl with a mink coat was once the most blessed of women, envied by her cloth-covered friends and respected even by headwaiters. Not so any more. As postwar prosperity made it possible for almost anyone to have a mink, almost anyone bought one. Secretaries and shopgirls began to turn up in Hollanderized versions, and though the pelts were sometimes poor and the cut was often sloppy, the fur was undeniably mink. Today mink spills off park benches, stadium bleachers and beauty-parlor coat racks as if it were so much mattress ticking...
...visitors' dressing room deep beneath the stands at Chicago's Comiskey Park, Charles Sonny Liston, 28, sat swaddled in towels and a white terry-cloth bathrobe. He stared at the green cinder-block walls for a moment, then turned his baleful, red-flecked brown eyes on Jack Nilon, his "investment adviser." "It's cold outside," grunted Sonny. "I'm gonna make it quick...
...found at the Guggenheim. From the 37 Daumiers to the 17 Degas, the 27 Moores and the 15 Giacomettis; from the three heads of Baudelaire-one by Duchamp-Villon, one by Rodin, and a third by Elie Nadelman-to Leonard Baskin's mournful John Donne in his Winding Cloth, to the delicate construction by Naum Gabo, the exhibition provides one delight after another...
...that Nikolayev had asked the ground station for the latest soccer scores. It was made known that Nikolayev's fellow cosmonauts, as a gag, slipped a sheet of jokes into his logbook before takeoff; the P.R. men announced that Popovich during his orbits was fondling a little cloth picture of Lenin as a child. In Moscow, government flacks passed out banners and cosmonaut photo placards for the jubilant throngs to wave in Red Square...