Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burma's Premier U Nu is a devout Buddhist, a Socialist and a sufficiently alert observer of the current scene to recognize Red China privately as the beast next door. U Nu is also an impeccable outward neutralist, a sponsor for Red China at international conferences, reluctant to accept arms from the West against Burma's own Communist rebellion. Last week however, U Nu found a canny way out of his difficulties: in exchange for some of Burma's piled-up rice surplus, he would collect enough military hardware to equip a brigade-not from the suspect...
...modeling, was soon making $400 a week posing for Ipana, beer ads, Old Golds. Photographer Ruzzie Green describes her as "what we call 'nice clean stuff' in our business. She's not a top model and never will be. She's the girl next door. No glamour, no oomph, no cheesecake. She has lovely shoulders but no chest. Grace is like Bergman in the 'clean' way. She can do that smush stuff in movies like-remember all those little kisses in Rear Window?-and get away with it." A friend remembers her at this...
Human Race. The change in society coverage has made a big difference in the social acceptability of reporters. Many a society leader, engaged in charitable work, has learned the value of publicity. No longer do reporters have to stand outside the door, like little match girls, trying to find out what is going on inside. Said Denver Post Society Editor Patricia Collins: "We are well accepted everywhere." In Washington there are so many parties, says Washington Post and Times-Herald Society Editor Marie McNair. "that I live all winter on canapes and don't get a green vegetable...
...automatically serve cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. On one side of the kitchen there is a "home-planner's desk" with a TV set that can be tuned so the housewife can peer into the living room and nursery or see who is at the front door...
...July ceremony called Seniors' Farewell, but that did not amount to much until Quincy's day. Then it became an orgy, highlighted by such scenes as "the College janitor, in vain protesting, yet not without hilarious collusion on his own part, (being) borne in wavering triumph on a door." The afternoon always began in Wadsworth House over what Professor Morison cryptically calls "cake and wine...