Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white satin sleeveless dress embossed with brightly colored flowers into which tiny pearls were sewn. She wore long diamond and emerald earrings and a diamond hairclip." Another fashionplate was Harlem's own Representative Adam Clayton Powell, strolling around in "a green Austrian evening jacket with a black velvet collar and, for buttons, Franz Josef coins...
...swept to victory. Barely in second place was Tory Candidate Coles; he squeaked in by a mere 390 votes ahead of the Liberals, who jumped from zero to 27% of the vote. The strong Liberal showing indicates a Liberal appeal to the working class as well as white-collar groups, though the cautious remembered that the Liberals had looked fine in early by-elections before, only to fizzle out at general election time...
Survivors know it was slow because the P.A. system blared the victims' screams throughout the cell blocks. A variant was the Pulpo (Octopus), a many-armed electrical device attached by means of small screws inserted into the skull. Trujillo's men also employed a rubber "collar" that could be tightened enough to sever a man's head, an 18-in. electrified rod ("the Cane") for shocking the genitals, nail extractors, leather-thonged whips, small rubber hammers, scissors for castration...
Died. C. (for Charles) Wright Mills, 46, angriest of the U.S.'s younger sociologists, a burly, motorcycle-riding Columbia University professor from Texas, who roused widespread ire with his jeremiads about the U.S. middle class (White Collar) and its upper class (The Power Elite), contended that "there are more men of knowledge in the service of men of power than men of power in the service of knowledge," recently wrote an emotional apologia for Castro titled Listen, Yankee; of a heart attack; in Nyack...
...stopped earning paychecks when Scott was eleven) but did not respect him; he respected his domineering mother but found her difficult to love. At prep school he had an inordinate vanity, was given to boasting about his nonexistent athletic prowess. At Princeton, where he was remembered for his "arrow-collar head on a longshoreman's body," he was no scholar but he enjoyed the big-time competition for campus prestige, certain that his talents would be recognized. But throughout his life, there was always a Hobey Baker (Princeton's famed halfback and hockey star) or a Hemingway...