Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five days the landing craft thrashed across the rough waters between transports and the muddy beaches. First loaded were the islands' 14,500 civilians. They swarmed down the treeless slopes, each labeled with a white cloth tag, shoes tied onto feet with string to keep them from pulling off in the ankle-deep mud. Each carried a pathetic bundle of possessions-straw bedding, aluminum kitchenware, a canteen or blackened teakettle, and (almost invariably) a rose-patterned chamber pot. Few seemed sad at leaving their cold, wind-whipped islands...
...though Christian Dior had offered to hand out his latest models on a Paris street corner. There lay a treasure trove of odhnis. the gaily colored lengths of cloth that northwest India's women wear over their heads-when they can afford them. Many women wear them only on their wedding day, then carefully put them away for future generations. Every Bhil woman would get one, announced Tantia, if she would swear by Kaladev that she would never hide her face again...
...last week Dr. Moussa Li to Marzuk, 28, a surgeon in Egypt's Jewish Hospital, walked out of his solitary cell in a Cairo prison. As a rabbi intoned Hebrew prayers, the executioner seized the white-faced surgeon, cuffed his hands in leather, bound his eyes in black cloth, led him into the death chamber, closed the door, and snapped the gallows trap. Half an hour later, 26-year-old Samuel Azar, a teacher, walked the same path of no return, and the ancient and endless quarrels of the Middle East were washed with the fresh blood...
...altar in flowers you take away from its original beauty." He even objected to feast-day processions. "I am deeply shocked," he wrote his superiors, "by the neopaganism of the masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with fiery sermons. As time went on, the peasants began to like their abbe. Watching him striding up the mountain trails, Bible in hand, the wind whipping his cassock about his knees, many thought he looked inspired...
...reason for the Eskimo's comfort in below-zero weather is that his clothes are not built on the European principle of insulating the body with many layers of cloth fitting close to the skin. Eskimo clothes are designed to capture and hold warm air. The loose fur trousers fit snugly over the boots. No cold air can rise up the legs to replace air that has been warmed by the body. Over the trousers the Eskimo wears a windtight fur parka with the skin side outside and no opening in front. It has a hood and it fits...