Word: coats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab leaders presented a sharp contrast: Mohammed in flowing white robes. Bourguiba in striped pants, morning coat and red fez. Outside the council room, shabby in worn mackintoshes, hovered two leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), Belkacem Krim and Abdelhafid Boussouf...
...interrupted at any particular moment. The high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology. Using every sort of trick-from figuring out how a boy can cover his newspaper route without ever retracing his steps, to taking off his vest without removing his coat-Baird gradually gets across the idea that topology is merely "the study of what remains unchanged in a thing," even when the shape of the thing has been completely altered, short of being torn...
...most popular dolls are expected to be Ideal's modernized Shirley Temple doll ($12.50), which nostalgic young mothers will have to explain to their daughters, and Miss Revlon ($2.98), a doll that can be outfitted with costumes ranging from a $1 smock to a fancy $250 mink coat. The little homemaker will find the appurtenances of the wonderful world of dolls more realistic than ever: from France comes an nin. metal shower ($9.95) that uses water, and from Japan a stove-and-sink combination ($3.95) with a burner that lights up and a tap that runs water...
...Five bucks says they won't do it," a red-cheeked lad commented. We told him we didn't gamble, and also gently reminded him that he was implanted on our toes. An old woman with black coat and cane tottered across the safety line, and an officer quickly retrieved...
...equally funny spoof of Mickey Spillane called "Don Brown's Body." Sample: "I was going into Longchamps when this tomato waltzes by. She was a tomato surprise. A round white face with yellow hair poured over it like chicken gravy on mashed potatoes. Her raccoon coat was tight in all the right places...