Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well-fed, and beaming with good humor, Harry Truman met the press, felt the cloth of a reporter's cord suit and allowed as how he had one just like it. A reporter wanted to know what he had to say about rumors that McKinney might be called back as Democratic national chairman. "I'd be in complete agreement," said Truman. "Frank's the best chairman the party ever had." Then, as if he suddenly realized that this would not be sweet music to the unhappy ears of Democratic National Chairman Steve Mitchell, Truman tried (with little...
...income taxes in Nevada. Then, well armed with the names and idiosyncrasies of wealthy prospects, he set out to sell bankrupt ranches as tax havens, and was soon transplanting millionaires to Nevada's soil-e.g., Bing Crosby, Max Fleischmann, Bronx Politico Ed Flynn, Automobile Magnate Errett Lobban Cord, Stock Broker Dean Witter...
Three-Dimension, "the four-eyed revolution," had hit the land hard. Quite by accident, as it walked around in a daze of depression, Hollywood had tripped over a firing cord and shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the movies in such numbers as Hollywood had not seen since the end of World War II. By the millions they came, to peer through an eye-straining haze of alcohol and iodine (the basic ingredients of the H Polarizer) at a simple optical illusion whose principle was known to Euclid...
...abortion. Despite her conscious ignorance of biology, she told in detail of having been "just a tiny spot," then beginning to grow bigger. From the patient's mother, Dr. Kelsey learned that she had indeed been unwanted, and had been almost strangled at birth by the umbilical cord. "Not surprisingly, [the mother denied] any attempt at procuring a miscarriage...
...most part, warm-weather attire remains a pretty stable affair. Cool, classic, and casual, the raw materials are cotton and acetate. Seersucker and cord suits, light-colored dresses made of cotton, and Bermuda shorts are among the Spring stand...