Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill town. In Abraham's Beersheba the smells of Bedouin camel saddleries and Turkish coffee are giving way to the smoke of a ceramics factory and the fumes of vans trucking Ethiopian hides up the new road from Elath. Settlers whose Spartan waves often do without even a dress-up blouse for the Sabbath have opened up nearly 500 new farm communities, and Israel now grows two-thirds of its food. Behind the orange groves of the Philistine coast spread huge chicken ranches where Israel's No. 1 meat fare is fattened for the platter on wire-decked...
...high-salaried ($600,000 a year) nightclubbing buddy, Lieut. General Rafael Trujillo Jr., who agreed that his wardrobe needed a little touching up, ordered himself: 14 single-breasted herringbone and plaid suits ($285 each); four Saxony wool sports coats ($196 each); 10 sports shirts ($20 to $30 apiece); 24 dress shirts ($33 each); 50 neckties ($7.50 each); four pairs of English worsted flannel slacks ($88 each...
...Dress Habits Fadish...
...body-shaping gesture of her hands to prime her audience for her blues-tinted ballads -Yon Do Something to Me, Fools Rush In, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. In Detroit's Flame Show Bar, she appears sleekly encased in a bare-shouldered black dress, throws her head back, and through pouting lips floats out her sad, sexy lyrics in a voice smoky with longing. Her timing and enunciation are precise. Usually she plays the elegant if slightly shopworn lady, but sometimes she drops that role to launch into a gusty celebration of the simple...
...belong to somebody?" asks the shy Dutch student on a sudden impulse. The girl in the bright yellow dress smilingly answers no. It is Zurich in the invasion spring of 1944. but any day is D-day to Cupid. The arrow of love pins Anthoni and Catherine together in a brief, bittersweet affair. Only when they try to pull apart do the lovers discover that the arrow is poisoned...