Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side, and disregarded all instructions to see his Swiss doctors (TIME, June 23), Talal had come home. Changing from Western to Arabic dress, he capped his kaffiyeh not with the usual double strand of gold agal worn by all royalty, but with the simple black commoner's cord he often prefers. A three-man regency council will continue to govern Jordan until either Talal recovers, or his son, Crown Prince Hussein, comes of age next...
...sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched for the sub, shaking her like a light bulb on a cord. The first time it happened to Trigger, Tokyo Rose claimed her sunk, then played a recording of Rocked in the Cra dle of the Deep. It was a characteristic Japanese extravagance: they claimed 468 subs in the course of the war. U.S. sub losses in the Pacific from all causes were...
...Silver Cord. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Peter Hoffman told the judge in a divorce suit against a fourth husband that she used to call her mother every half-hour when she went out, because "Mother always wanted to know that I was quite all right...
...required reading in many Harvard courses; hundreds of freshmen each year read him for Government and Social Science assignments. Yet despite all his pointed references to the evils of conformity, it's a safe bet that men's fashions at Harvard this spring will feature chino pants and light cord jackets; orange and white sport shirts will be seen but seldom. Carefully shutting his cars to the council of one of the world's great social thinkers, the Harvard undergraduate will go on conforming just as he always...
...Cord and seersucker jackets have the same overwhelming virtue of being remarkably inexpensive; one can shed them each fall like old toenails and feel no financial twinges...