Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Punjab, India, Peace Corpsmen arrived to find that the U.S. foreign aid program had purchased an electric wheat-grinding machine months ago for the natives' use. Unfortunately, it had sat idle ever since. Reason: the electric cord had a flat-pronged American-style plug instead of the round-pronged plug needed in India. The Peace Corpsman merely chopped off the American plug, grafted on an Indian plug, and put the machine to work to the great gratification of the whole community...
...CHARLES E. CHAMBERLAIN NORMAN CHANDLER CAROL CHANNING COLBY M. CHESTER INA CLAIRE MARK W. CLARK Lucius D. CLAY VAN CLIBURN CLARK CLIFFORD BENJAMIN V. COHEN LESTER LUM COLBERT ANITA COLBY EDWARD N. COLE LEROY COLLINS JAMES BRYANT CONANT FAIRFAX M. CONE JOHN SHERMAN COOPER THOMAS CORCORAN ERRETT L. CORD RALPH J. CORDINER VIRGIL COUCH JOHN COWLES EDITH CUMMINGS JOHN P. CUNNINGHAM ALEXANDER C. CUSHING
...closing number, Miss Washington, stacked like the melon gallery, appeared in a mass of red taffeta. She pulled her rip cord, and there she stood-after all, it is the nation's capital-not quite nude. An aw-gee string. A suggestion of red taffeta there-there and there...
...VENETIAN BLINDS. A centuries-old and efficient design, the Venetian blind has been tampered with by improvers, who have divided it so that top and bottom can be tilted separately (who needs it?), and the adjusting cord run through a snap spring. Result: they...
...film makers have tied some fancy knots in the silver-cord theme of Inge's original play, and some lines have been thrown in that are sure to make Inge cringe. Says Woodward to Trevor: "I shouldn't tell you this; it might shock you." Says Trevor to Woodward: "Don't forget, I'm a registered nurse." A Loss of Roses bumped through 25 performances on Broadway; as The Stripper, it doesn't come...