Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the ear down and to put in a few more things that would fill up, like fried eggs. I did the best I could to get on the outside of all of it. Asked what I owed them. Said $2.50. Called the proprietor. He come in with a collar so high he had to set down quick or it would have cut his ears off. I told him that down in Texas I could get all I could eat for 250, and as long as the court knows herself I'd eat somewhere else. I thought they would...
When the law forces her wayward illegitimate son to enroll at a school for boys, Liz storms off to the beach to enjoy what's left of freedom. Burton, as the Rev. Mr. Hewitt, follows her, after carefully removing his clerical collar. She is a wild thing who tends wounded birds or casually poses nude-hands to bosom, in deference to a man of the cloth-for a sculptor...
...transformation of the domestic servant into a blueor white-collar worker means a great increase in efficiency in some areas, from frozen foods to dry cleaning. This does not necessarily produce a better way of smoothly coping with existence or gaining greater leisure. As Historian John Niven puts it: "My wife is as chained to the washing machine as she would be to the scrubbing board." The helpless life can create a nagging drudgery, a constant, often semiconscious preoccupation with the details of living, with intractable objects, impersonal mechanisms and complex logistics required for the simplest acts...
...white-haired man shuffled into Los Angeles superior court. His pants cuffs spilled two inches over his shoes. A wide necktie flopped across his rumpled blue shirt, his collar tabs curled like potato chips. He was Arthur Garrett, 63, lawyer for the plaintiff-who also happened to be Arthur Garrett...
Fifteen minutes after splashdown, Navy frogmen were lowered into the water by a helicopter. They peered into McDivitt's window to see if the astronauts were all right, then strapped a huge yellow flotation collar around the capsule to keep it from sinking...