Word: cutaway
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...summer of his junior year he sailed off importantly with grandfather Foster to attend the Second Hague Conference. Grandfather, good friend of the Chinese, had agreed to serve for them as a plenipotentiary, and 19-year-old Foster became secretary of the Chinese delegation, wearing a cutaway and going to receptions and paying almost no attention to a hometown girl in hair ribbons whom he happened to meet on a trip to Paris...
...rodders soon took to the textbook-like stories, pictures of engine heads, and cutaway diagrams of new racers which floored ordinary readers. There were how-to-do-it hints from the hot-rodder who hit 120 m.p.h. after "pouring nitrated alky through three 975"; from another whose racing engine "is a Model B Ford, bored .060-inch oversize with Jahns pistons, Pontiac rods and a drilled crankshaft...
Democrats watched Alexander's skillful showmanship in exasperated frustration. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome, and young (35), Bill Alexander already commanded a devoted following for his dynamic sermons. In his church, dressed in a cutaway, he prowls back & forth on the platform, crouching like a boxer (he was once an excellent amateur), leaping forward to his full height, gesticulating expressively, sweeping his listeners along. Sometimes he interrupts to point out his mother. "Stand up, Mama, and let the folks see you. There's my mom," he cries, as the congregation applauds. And then he tugs at heartstrings...
...haughty caterer (Leo G. Carroll) sniffs through Tracy's suburban home, orders it thoroughly revamped for the reception. Tracy's 20-year-old cutaway splits a seam. A lovers' quarrel threatens briefly to end the whole show. The wedding rehearsal turns into bedlam. Then comes the ceremony itself and the ultimate chaos-the reception. Tossed about in a maelstrom of thirsty guests and burdened with such undignified chores as untangling traffic jams out front, Tracy cannot find his daughter to say goodbye before she rushes off on her honeymoon. Finally he is alone and at peace with...
Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was plainly reaching for political respectability. Clad in diplomatic cutaway, silk tie and striped trousers, he had clinked champagne glasses earlier this month with Warren R. Austin, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, during Austin's Caribbean tour. Before Austin left the Dominican Republic, the 400-year-old University of Santo Domingo gave him an honorary degree...