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Word: dress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are no performances on Sunday nights, but every Monday night preceding an opening the Players stage a special public dress rehearsal...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Out of Cambridge, Much Ado | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Nikita Khrushchev's Russia the "new class" of elite bureaucrats is learning to have class. Moscow's GUM department store now features the sack, as well as Western-style swimsuits (see cuts). Explains the fashion show commentator: "The masses will grow accustomed to dresses as high as 14 inches from the floor." But neither the masses nor the class will be able to buy the dresses-only the materials and patterns. The cost for one dress: about two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Getting the Sack | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...crop will go this year to the Soviet bloc. Although Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Restless Province | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Outside the cream-colored Chamber of Deputies in Rangoon last week, troops in battle dress lined the streets; Bren-gun carriers patrolled the bazaars; anxious citizens stood nervously by, holding umbrellas against the monsoon rains and clutching their wind-blown longyis (Burmese sarongs). Inside the building, 248 Deputies were jammed together under the rhythmic movement of 18 ceiling fans that fluttered the loose ends of their yellow, pink and blue head kerchiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Showdown Under the Fans | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...round, Terry stumbled on another pronunciation tangle, correctly spelled her substitute word. A round later, Tina failed on soubise. Chance for a male uprising-no boy has won since 1954-ended in the 26th round when Stanley splashed into canaliculus. Jolitta, blonde, scrubbed, and pretty in a pink cotton dress that she made herself, easily tobogganed through pogamoggan and rigescent. Terry spelled coruscant and sirocco with no trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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