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Word: crepe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holding onto them is quite another matter. On a basketball court, where a simple shout of "Contact!" is enough to bring everything to a halt these days, or on a crowded dance floor, where couples scrambling among the fruggers' feet have become as essential as crepe paper at any successful prom, lost lenses simply disappear. Otherwise, they get wafted down drains, into swimming pools, off ski slopes. They are lodged between the pages of books, the coils of radiators, the seats in movie houses, never again to be seen or to afford sight. Moreover, the new lenses easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Lens Insana | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...Jacqueline Kennedy's formal year of mourning, was to have been a hospital benefit with Hollywood glitterbugs. Instead, Jackie, 35, chose an occasion that in more than one way seemed closer to home. Escorted by U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, and dressed in a one-shouldered black crepe gown with an ermine jacket, she attended a U.N. concert commemorating the 16th anniversary of the adoption of its Declaration of Human Rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...hamburger budget, most foreign pavilions have food stands selling specialties of their country at hamburger prices. The United Arab Republic serves falafel (50?), a bean feast that tastes like a spicy meat sandwich. Morocco serves mint tea and pastry ($1) in carpeted tents. Try the Belgian Village's crepe-suzette shop where a Grand Marniered pancake costs 75?, or India's chicken pakora and clay-oven-baked bread (45?) served on the lawn by a turbaned chef. International Plaza, a noisy cluster of small shops and food stands, offers a culinary Cook's Tour that takes only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: RESTAURANTS | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...prestigious Halsted & Co., for which he has been "selling funerals," as they say in the trade, for 30 years. "But I do know that this generation seems to want things done more simply. It's probably the most significant trend since the 1930s, when people stopped hanging crepe on their doors, and funeral services were moved from the family living room to the mortuary chapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Business of Dying | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...leavening, in the past two or three years. Mostly chain-operated, the pancake shops are attractive, glittering clean, well designed, usually are located in suburban areas, where they get maximum family traffic. They offer the once-humble griddle cake, glorified and garnished in up to 37 astonishing varieties (e.g., crepe suzette, blintze, Swedish roll-up, royal Hawaiian). Fast growing Pancake Kitchens, Inc. this week opened its tenth "Aunt Jemima's Kitchen" at Bethpage, Long Island, plans to have 36 shops operating in the Eastern U.S. by 1967. International House, which has 63 shops across the country, is opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: Better Batter, Lotto Butter | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

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