Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...westerns starts with the town's God, fearing merchants up to their sleeve garters in fear and frustration. The black hats are many and merciless, the lawmen feckless and few. The community antes up for its own gunmen, and the action begins. Now, in real life and modern dress, the city of Houston is playing out the old melodrama...
Such short doses of military life, offered free of charge to private companies, began as an army promotion to dress up the public image of Japan's all-volunteer Self-Defense Force. In six years of operation, Taiken Nyutai has not notably boosted army recruitment. It has instead become accepted as a corporate personnel-training institution. Last year 80,000 new employees from 1,500 organizations were farmed out for a taste of boot camp. This year 100,000 are expected to enroll-including 29 Tokyo office girls...
Living Torch. At the height of the midday shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast...
Come Along, Old Queen, We've Sighted the Golden Gates is one of her most ambitious. It portrays Queen, in an orange cotton dress, being led by a strong Bridget in a silk plaid skirt and a brown wool jacket, to a gold metallic gate of Heaven with a welcoming Christ within. It may also be prophetic, for Queen has become too crippled to lie flat. When she tries to doze sitting up, she is constantly awakened by spasms of pain. Since doctors were of no avail to her in her youth, she sees no reason to turn...
...bathtub, "Anchors aweigh," when Lever Brothers offered to pay him double what the Navy paid, I nagged for his dress sword with gold braid, and cringed because Mother, new caps on all her teeth, was born anew at forty. With seamanlike celerity, Father left the Navy, and deeded Mother his property...