Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls of his palace with the multicolored electric lights that are a feature even of middle class Indian weddings. The bridegroom, Nawab Mahmood Jung, who comes of an aristocratic Hyderabad family that ranks just below the Nizam, drove up to the palace in a 100-car motorcade, wearing a cloth-of-gold coat and a sun-sparkling necklace of diamonds and emeralds. His face was delicately veiled by strings of orange blossoms and arum lilies specially flown in from Bangalore, 300 miles away...
...seem like a "large church." But Eddie only knows the stale cigar and cigarette smoke, the massiveness of mahogany tables squatting impersonally, the lone hustler practicing shots. Hours may pass in a close game when the only life the hustler sees consists of shaded light on the brushed green cloth, the movement of balls elegantly cued, the sensuous dropping of globes into pockets. When it is over, win or lose, he wanders out into the streets that are usually slummy and unfriendly and back to a hotel room whose look and cost closely reflect his recent successes or failures...
...remember it from your humanities course: J.B. on a dung heap warmed only by the misery of several old women; "comforted" by a psychiatrist, a communist, and a man of the cloth; crying the old echo for "reason;" demanding justice...
...blockade, "when we hardly dared hope," the mayor got approving nods from women as he recalled how "mothers cheated themselves to give their husbands and children more to eat," ticked off post-blockade progress ("half a million new jobs, half a million Berliners in new apartments"), and briskly bade cloth-capped workers to stick with Berlin's friends in the West...
From the test tube only recently have come better dyes and finishes, plus much-improved wash-and-wear cloth. The new idea is to bring out improved synthetics every year in a campaign of planned obsolescence. This season alone, chemical and textilemen are introducing more than a dozen new synthetics. Each one is tailored to a special job. For example, Eastman Kodak's Tennessee Eastman Co. has launched Kodel, which will blend with wool or synthetics to produce wash-and-wear flannels. Dow Chemical Co. has recently brought out Zefran, another wool-like synthetic to be woven into coats...