Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat of his pants while he was in them. ("Men's egos are bigger today," he later explained to The Boston Globe. "Men want that little bit of security that a good secretary provides.") Second prize went to a store manager who asked his clerks to dress up as bumble bees to attract customers into his store. A similar competition in Cleveland turned up a guy who sent his secretary out to buy a negligee for his mistress, while several New York secretaries had to see that their bosses' toupees were cleaned and styled...
Many Indians found St. Clair's attitude toward them and their culture condescending and demeaning. He asked witnesses questions about the number of occasions on which they wore Indian dress, the number of words of Algonquin they knew, the number of times they held certain meetings. He tried to make these factual points the standards by which to judge a group of people with a complex religion and culture...
...race. He adds, though, that whenever anything goes wrong, he pins it on being black. Another thing about Ed that he feels did not go over well with the club members was his clothes. He describes his preparations for the screenings this way: "I'm a very colorful dresser. Dressing well is one of the things I enjoy. Now, when I was getting ready to go to lunch with these Phoenix Club guys, my friend Milt told me what I should wear. 'Wear a plain colored shirt and a jacket,' he told me. I know they don't like colorful...
...slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing an older sister's hand-me-down dress and chewing tobacco to compensate for the skirt. "I come from a harder life than most characters I play," he explains with his customary simplicity, "and when I do movies I continue...
Jihan Sadat, 43, is Westernized in her dress and in her outlook on social problems. The presidential consort, however, stays out of politics completely and was kept in the dark by her husband during the four major crises of his career: the 1952 revolution that overthrew King Farouk, an attempted coup by ambitious leftists in 1971, the October War of 1973, and his journey to Jerusalem in November. Last month, in an interview with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, she recalled in revealing fashion these pivotal moments...