Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since Jinnah became Governor General, Fatima has blossomed, in her wraithlike fashion, as official hostess. When Jinnah's illness kept him in Lahore, Fatima paid regal visits every day to hospitals, refugee camps and schools. If photographers failed to turn up, Fatima was beside herself. Lahore's famed rose gardens were renamed Gulistan-i-Fatima (Miss Fatima Gardens). Her car sported a blue personal flag with the initials "FJ" encircled in the center...
...that he is the world's greatest bowler (TIME, May 5). A good many of the experts disagreed. They would rather bet their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...
...parties were also guilty. In an editorial he said: "It is time that society as a whole faced the fact that through its negligence and apathy this postwar period has become a hog-wallow of eroticism." He felt that the mud in this wallow was contributed by some movies, fashion designers, plays, radio programs, books, perfume ads and "unwholesome comic strips with provocative poses." He left it to his readers to tell him what should be done...
...many pastures. With his hard-riding vaqueros, amid the dust and acrid smell of burning flesh, Bob Kleberg threaded his horse in & out of the milling hundreds of cherry-red cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick Spanish phrases which cattle to "cut out" for branding. As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding...
...dangers of the program. In making loans to businesses through the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, there was grave danger that the government might gain control of so many companies that Free-Trader Einaudi would find he had no course but to set up a state-controlled economy. In this same fashion, Mussolini's state-run holding company (Istituto di Ricostruzione Industriale) had gained control of an enormous part of the economy...