Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been prepared for eccentric remarks--after all, the chap wrote poetry--but to claim that the meaning of life sat on the mantel in a Harvard room! Shaken, he reached for the object which he now saw to be a corked bottle containing a crumpled piece of dark cloth...
...months ago Khrushchev himself told the Soviet people to shape up-discard their familiar padded jackets and baggy pants. Result: on Moscow streets, vivid hats are replacing drab shawls, and more men are wearing fedoras instead of cloth hats. But following fashion is not always easy, complained Izvestia. Only one man in 30 can find a ready-made suit that will fit him. In a ladies' clothing store on Gorky Street an Izvestia reporter overheard a salesgirl telling a customer: "Your figure is nonstandard, and you won't find anything for yourself." The next 20 customers were likewise...
...March 27 The Shroud of Turin (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A religious documentary about the burial cloth kept at Turin, Italy that has been honored for centuries as Christ's. A Good Friday repeat for the sixth year...
...with their eyes." But it was all over now, and Ernesto had married. Although Enzo himself was not married to Vincenzina, he was outraged by her confession, took her home to her family. Vincenzina's father was shamed, ordered her out of the house, and draped black cloth over his front door...
...outrage of Pastor Duncan made good publicity for the flower show; attendance was up some 20,000 over last year. "Toward the end," said one official, "we had more men of the cloth in there than we had flowers...