Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister, and drew a fetching analogy. "When a torero and a toro are in the ring," explained the Spaniard, "sometimes somebody from the audience will jump into the ring with a homemade muleta-which up to that moment he had hidden in his pants-wave the cloth at the bull and try to take over the fight. We call him an espontdneo (spontaneous one), and we jail him: he spoils the fiesta and dangerously distracts the torero. Nehru looks like an international espont...
Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...
...White goods (stoves, refrigerators, washing machines) should be painted canary yellow to make them appear white; white cloth should be tinted blue or dipped in hot, black coffee...
...gentlemanly behavior. Another story tells how little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little suit fitted perfectly and on the following Sunday Jimmy was the envy of all the other village boys as he went to church...
...Will Win." Under a rainy sky our plane hedgehopped over the broad, quiet Korean countryside. As the plane dipped over the airfield we noticed the first sign of war. Groups of American civilians were wildly waving strips of white cloth, towels and flags as a signal that the airfield was safe for landing...