Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chamber of Deputies, Premier Guy Mollet in schoolmasterly fashion announced his government's program for meeting and quelling Algerian unrest: 1) vigorous military effort to restore order; 2) economic reform; 3) free elections as soon as possible to provide Algerian spokesmen with whom France can work out a political future for Algeria. In short, said Mollet, demanding a vote of confidence, "neither abandonment of the rights of France, nor denial of her duties...
...party, Dwight Eisenhower is the supreme commander of the National Committee. He has delegated much of his authority to Hall and welcomes Hall's advice. The Capitol Hill committees, on the other hand, are run by the Senators and Representatives themselves, pretty much after their own independent fashion. Most of the top Republicans who control the Campaign Committees are men who rose to power on their own efforts during the long Democratic years when the Republican National Committee could give them little or no help. They have maintained themselves in office by do-it-yourself methods, and they feel...
...Eisenhower greeted his visitor. "It is the first time an Italian President has visited this country. I am very delighted to have you here. It is a very great privilege." President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy thanked President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the U.S. and then inclined, in courtly fashion, to kiss Mamie Eisenhower's hand...
More Arab than the Arabs, Glubb Pasha loved to recite Arab classics, finger Moslem prayer beads (though himself an Anglican), and walk hand in hand in Eastern fashion with Abdullah in the King's garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from...
...verve that trailed rapt feminine stares behind her like smoke from a gold-tipped cigarette. And she had an intuitive sense for that ill-defined and mysterious quality, taste. To two generations of American women Henrietta-or, as she was better known, Hattie Carnegie-was the quintessence of feminine fashion. Last week, at 69, Hattie Carnegie died of cancer, and left few peers in the bewildering business of adorning the body of American women...