Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned each night to occupy the town itself for a few hours, the villagers were evacuating it by the thousands. To try to build up their morale, the 1st Division sent in medics and armored personnel carriers, and the division band went oompahing through the streets in full battle dress, brass horns gleaming in the sun. The effort was unsuccessful. Understandably frightened by the ferocity of the battle, the villagers continued to stream southward, their possessions on their backs. By week's end Loc Ninh was virtually a ghost town...
Nowadays, women take such once dreaded confrontations in stride. "We all laugh when we see ourselves in duplicate or triplicate," says Jo Hughes. Besides, the situation could have been a whole lot worse. For the same $500 dress is owned by no fewer than 150 women, including such other notables as Ethel Kennedy, Cee-Zee Guest, Mrs. Douglas Dillon, Mrs. John R. Drexel III and Mrs. Arthur Gardner. Worn on those backs, proclaimed Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker, "it's the dress of the year...
...short sleeves and a deep, slotted decolletage that can be hooked shut modestly or opened all the way down to a softly pulled obi sash in front. "If you feel sexy, you can open all the snaps," says Jean Tailer. "And if a woman has any figure problems, the dress disguises them." "I'm sick of the flowing dresses that have been around-I love the huggy feeling this dress gives your figure," says Noreen Drexel, who wore hers to dinner at the White House recently and got compliments from all the men. Says Socialite Ames Gushing, who works...
...Hicks; first the Establishment got the Commonwealth to overturn the Neighborhood School idea with the racial imbalance law; and last night it spoiled the victory party by getting Kevin White elected Mayor. "The Establishment--you know, the bankers and the reporters," said a lady in a frilly blue party dress, "that's what licked...
...effect, the change has hardly been visible because in most Yale colleges dress rules have not been enforced for several years. "It's a de facto, rather than a de jure, decision," said one Yale student...