Word: clothe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having an improper $18,000 slush fund set up for him by California businessmen. Eisenhower thought seriously of throwing Nixon off the ticket. Nixon responded with the masterfully corny Checkers speech, in which he pharaonically denied wrongdoing and told the nation about his wife's "respectable Republican cloth coat" and his daughters' pet dog. It worked; the country loved it; Ike kept him. Years later, his painful writhings during Watergate were ultimately unavailing, but there was some echo of the Papyrus of Nu in Nixon's "I am not a crook...
UNFORTUNATELY, while most people may accept the administration assurance. American old people of today and of the immediate future face dismal prospects. Medicare is the cloth of Reagan's "safety net." In allowing this program to survive, he argues that the government was providing adequate protection against the serious hazards which accompany old age. But this net is flawed. The boundaries of Medicare keep it from addressing even some of the most common medical problems of the aged...
...remember that preppy fashion's value lies in the monetary symbol of its diverse logos. The sole charm of a Lacoste shirt is the Lacoste. The Handbook confirms this: "Subtleties of cut, weave, or color distinguish the merely good from the Prep. A small percentage of polyester in oxford cloth shirt of a lapel that's a quarter of an inch too wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest...
...upstairs, at 2 a.m., there don't seem to be many fishermen or climbers--two women argue about sizes of Bean's Oxford Cloth Shirtdresses, Bean's Jean Skirts and Bean's Kettle Cloth Skirts. They settle on one and head for the footwear department, stopping in front of a display of the Maine hunting shoe, L. L.'s first inspiration. "They're so cute," one of the women says. "And besides, I need something to go shopping...
...Christian who has everything, Oxford Press offers the Washburn College Bible, a dressed-up King James Version with 66 full-color reproductions of masterpieces from Giotto to Rouault and three screen prints by Josef Albers: $3,500 for a red leather-bound three-volume "limited edition" in a cloth-covered redwood case. A scaled-down one-volume slipcased trade version costs a mere $65. (Oxford's cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases...