Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wears star-studded trousers, red-and-white-striped bikinis, or displays flags superimposed with symbols of peace? Let us stand up for and preserve the ideals that this country and its flag represent, but please let's don't bow down and worship a piece of cloth as a false idol...
Decor was not neglected at the Sheraton-Chicago hotel, however. Each day's session had a color theme−pink for Tuesday, for example, with pink cloth tote bags emblazoned with red cardinals presented as favors. At one luncheon, the delegates sighed over a new strain of gladiolus christened the "Osa Mae Gladiolus," in honor of National Council President Mrs. Osa Mae Barton...
...slingshot of the neckline of his black ribbed-nylon version; Bill Blass plunges one tank top to the waist and leaves one entire shoulder off another. Children's Designer Florence Eiseman, yielding to demands by mothers who want to look as good as daughters, makes a terry-cloth tank suit that absorbs figure faults along with water...
...restaurant eavesdroppers make dining-out interviews impossible. Galvin was not at all surprised to find her hostess entertaining in slacks. "After all, that's fashionable," she says, "but it was a bit startling to have Dr. Masters come in the door a few minutes later wearing orange terry-cloth jogging pants. He explained that they always dress this way on Sundays to make it seem as if they are not working-though most of the time they are." Indeed, each day for a week, Galvin arrived before 9 a.m. at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis...
...record since his election in 1966, after the U.S. intervention. "Everything I promised has been accomplished," he said, "with the exception of museums in Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros." To win voters' loyalty, Balaguer hands out gifts at every campaign stop: new shoes, bolts of cloth, caps and 5-and 1-peso notes. It was an old-fashioned campaign typical of the man-a stodgy bachelor who neither smokes nor drinks...