Word: dress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officials have finished their examinations, visitors arriving at Tirana's bucolic, one-strip airport are immediately advised that socialist Albania frowns on long hair, shorts or deep décolletage. "We don't need hash, long hair or jazz music," one crew-cut student told a modishly dressed but severely disillusioned Italian Maoist in our group, pointing to his body-hugging Via Veneto shirt, bell-bottom jeans and wide belt. "A socialist does not dress like an American cowboy." A Swedish girl, who ventured out of her beachside hotel in hot pants one scorching day, got the point...
...confuse the New York Times and the Washington Post with Pravda [Aug. 9], George Jessel has once again exposed his ignorance. Jessel seems to equate the right of questioning the American Government and its military with anti-Americanism. He has a right to voice his opinions. But to dress up and play soldier and to brand and label is uncalled for. Edwin Newman handled the situation with tact, and rather than let Mr. Jessel pretend to march, he took away his toy drum...
...type seats, air-conditioned boxes and usherettes called the Hot Pants Patrol. It has not just one but two exploding scoreboards that can do everything but cook the hot dogs. The big spectacular is a routine done by Philadelphia Phil and Phillis, two 25-ft.-high statues in colonial dress mounted at press-box level. When a Philly hits a home run, Phil strokes an animated ball, which strikes an animated Liberty Bell, which lights up along the crack, and the ball then ricochets and conks Phillis on the noggin. Phillis responds by shooting off a cannon while a large...
...year to drive, what with upkeep and gas.' So I told Vida, 'O.K., I agree,' and the next day he had a credit card from me. A couple of weeks later, he came to me again and said, 'Mr. Finley, that nice car is great. But I don't dress like a man who drives a Cadillac.' So I gave him a check for $1,000 for a new wardrobe." Blue and Finley are both aware of the game they are playing. As a $13,000-a-year hireling, Vida is clearly the biggest bargain in baseball. And come contract...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...