Word: corduroy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demurely chic in a rust-colored brushed-corduroy pantsuit and green blouse, Patty settled herself calmly on the witness stand after the jury came back into court. Bailey took up a protective stance beside her. Prosecutor Browning then started to ask Patty about 20 documents taken from her and the Harrises' apartments after she was seized. The documents, Browning had said, showed that the defendant had spent the missing year "casing banks." The cache included a floor plan of a bank, a list of banks and a yellow spiral notebook containing what the prosecution said were notes by Patty...
...Simpson doesn't remember Spiro making outrageous boasts. When newspapers reported Pavlovich as having a silver-blue Mercedes Benz, wearing three-piece suits to class and bragging of a Rhodes Scholarship, Simpson was surprised. When he saw Pavlovich, he says, "He drove a blue Plymouth and wore plain corduroy coats. He said he had studied in England, but not on a Rhodes...
...shirts. A big seller lately has been the "trashy look," seen mainly in women's blouses; made of semitransparent polyester and cotton, the cloth gets its name from its rough, unfinished look. Demand for blue denim for everything from jeans to auto-seat covers is running high, and corduroy is also moving briskly. Home-furnishings sales, which have been impeded by the slowdown in housing construction, are beginning to show some life, especially in sheets, towels and draperies. Industrial textiles, such as conveyor belts, air-conditioning filters and awning fabrics, are selling poorly, but even they are expected...
Welch himself is rather unprepossessing. When I was ushered in to meet him, he was wearing pajamas and a worn blue corduroy bathrobe with a hole in the right elbow; my tour guide explained later that the 76-year-old Welch can only sleep two hours at a time, "it's not just physical, you know, there's just so much to do and watch for." It was a large office/sanctum on the second floor of 395 Concord Avenue, carpeted, bookshelved, same fake wood paneling as everything else, spattered with flag plaques and Statue of Liberty trophies, with typewriters pittering...
...second half, with Harvard firmly ahead, it was raining hard. McInally's corduroy racing cap was soaked, and he tilted his program down every few minutes--"to drain it," he said...