Word: crystals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain that comes down for just half a moment and then is gone just as suddenly, and, most of all, the snow, amazing as it is to all children, to whose eyes small drifts seem five feet high. Even death, when it comes, is a jewelled coach with cut crystal windows, followed by a procession in which everyone is included...
...King had just returned from evening prayers when he received me in the audience hall. He sat in an armchair centered against the wall at one end of the spacious room. Other armchairs lined the sides of the room, which was decorated with blue and white pilasters, crystal chandeliers and wall-to-wall beige carpet. Other men sat along the walls, and occasionally one would get up silently to hand the King a folded letter or speak quietly to him. Meanwhile, a servant served bitter Bedouin coffee in handleless cups...
...good this year. "We'll do it," says Ann Scott, legislative vice president of NOW. "I think this is the year," insists Douglas Bailey of Bailey, Deardourff & Eyre. Opponents of the ERA like Schlafly do not agree; but, said she last week, "I don't have a crystal ball...
...anthems, then, in a touch of unintentional irony, serenaded Ford with the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors. Hirohito took Ford to the moated Imperial Palace to meet Empress Nagako and exchange gifts: from the royal couple, a 2½%-ft. Kutani porcelain plate; from Ford, a Steuben crystal work engraved with pine and fir trees...
Soon after she met Mills at the Silver Slipper in July 1973, Fanne gave up her $500-a-week job and now has no visible means of support. That August, Mills and his wife Polly moved into an apartment in Fanne's luxury building, the Crystal Towers in Arlington, Va. According to club employees, Mills, usually with Fanne, visited the Silver Slipper about twice a month, where they sat at a small table near an emergency fire exit. Sometimes he ordered magnums of champagne for Fanne and drinks for the house, rarely less than $100 worth in a single evening...