Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came for Truman's full-dress speech, he was full of a fury that shocked the Stevenson-minded New York audience. He threw away a large chunk of his prepared script, sneered at "those snobs who think they have solutions to all our problems," and lit into "the hothouse liberal who talks the game but doesn't play it ... Let us choose a liberal who meets the requirements of the people who know the difference between a working liberal and a talking liberal . . . I for one have no time for the Johnny-come-lately, well...
India is a land where yesterday is more visible than tomorrow, where millions still follow the style of dress, architecture and behavior to be seen in the ruins and sculptures of Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley that nourished and died 4,000 years ago. Yet next door to the oxcart and the primitive wooden plow lies an India as modern as Pittsburgh, with belching smoke by day and glaring fire by night...
...fervent social reformer becomes a kind of madhouse Grace Metalious. Two nurse trainees, Kathy Hunter and Althea Home, develop identical crushes on Donovan Macleod, the strong, silent head doctor. Macleod is impervious, but his colleague, Dr. Larry Denning, is so "vigorously amorous" that he rips off Althea's dress one night and treats her to what he regards as therapeutic rape. Pretty soon both nurses are sleeping in beds they never made...
...have to prove we have brains by looking like slobs," remarked a Cabot Hall resident, approving the contest. "After all, we're part of the Ivy League, and should dress accordingly," she added...
...isolated feats. The real craze at the moment is hiking against the clock. The fad started a month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service dress and carrying a submachine gun, marched the no miles from Dorset to London, eating buns and sipping rum for fuel, staggered across the Charing Cross finish line in mid-London 36 hr. 27 min. later, gasped: "Tell that to the marines!" The marines were serenely proud of his deed. Said...