Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad-shouldered Father Hartnett scribbled notes diligently while Blanshard talked and, when he got his turn, quickly abandoned his prepared speech to speak off the cuff. The trouble with Blanshard, he said, "is his lack of firsthand knowledge of Catholicism. Reviewers have praised his book for its documentation. Why does he have to document it so much? . . . Because the man does not know the Catholic Church like those of us who are on the inside. It's very much like the foreigner who had never visited the United States, but wrote a book about it from our Constitution...
...true drape wore his hair seaweed-long. His shirt was pastel pink and buttoned at the throat (no tie); the jacket was loose, wraparound and without lapels. But the distinctive mark was the black zaks-slacks, that is, that are sharply nipped at the bottom to a narrow cuff. The effect was something between a sagging pair of plus fours and badly fitting jodhpurs...