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Word: corduroy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl picked me up. It was about nine o'clock. Thursday morning, August 14. The girl driving the car looked about five feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hemless mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a smail, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back. There were two long-haired guys with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Road from Gallup to Albuquerque: | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...left for the boat. Cohn was sporting a powder blue golfing windbreaker, wide wale scarlet corduroy pants, and sort of Pilgrim shoes with fancy buckles. We were accompanied by Dan and Jerry, two legal assistants, and Dan's omnipresent pair of miniature spaniels with matching cute names. Dan is short and stocky, with flowing Brillcream coiffure. Jerry is thin; he wore a red and white striped round-collared button down, and conjured up images of Kingston Trio. We said farewell to the two other legal assistants who strolled off in their six button au-courant east side uniforms and their...

Author: By (douglas B. Smith, | Title: The Real Unexciting Life of Roy M. Cohn | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

WALRUS WAS ONE of the really important people from the old Resistance days. He was wearing a green corduroy cap and hiking boots. He had a moustache that grew straight down over both lips. He had cut his hair, which was why I didn't recognize...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Resistance: An Obituary | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

WALRUS WAS ONE of the really important people from the old Resistance days. He was wearing a green corduroy cap and hiking boots. He had a moustache that grew straight down over both lips. He had cut his hair, which was why I didn't recognize...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Resistance: An Obtiuary | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...boyish, Tree sports a luxuriant beard and performs in corduroy jeans and an open-necked shirt. He has never had formal musical training. His interest in music began 16 years ago, when he learned to play a friend's drum after dropping out of Los Angeles City College. He began giving concerts four years ago. To support himself and pay for his 1,000 Ibs. of musical instruments-many of his gongs are on loan from the Santa Barbara Museum-he has worked as a laborer, office clerk and house painter. Despite his meager income from an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Symphony of One | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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