Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily Worker, also prudent, ran the same editorial tribute to Stalin two days in a row because it was not sure what else to say; finally it got the word and began to speak of "the Malenkov government." In the fashion set by Stalin, Pravda set to work with retouching brushes and scissors to glorify Georgy Malenkov. It ran a photograph showing him with Stalin and China's Mao Tse-tung-just the three of them. This proved to be a mutilation of a picture taken three years ago at the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty; some...
...division rotates battalions instead of individuals, and most military men believe this is a better system than the U.S. scheme of individual rotation. Now, the division is preparing to integrate Koreans into their units, in the same fashion as the American KATUSA (they will be called KATCOMS). In the present resi-and-training phase, the division is composed of three brigades, one Canadian, one Scottish-English, one mainly Australian, and other smaller units, including a New Zealand artillery regiment. The Canadians and Anzacs are all volunteers. They are commanded by Major General Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, who prefers...
...throw away that pearl. Dye, it string it and it will provide that extra needed color account to your little black dress. The dog collar is still with us, vying with classic links and pendants for the fashion spot. Our model wears engine-turned golden links with her Carmen hoops...
Every year about this time, poets, young girls, and fashion writers frantically seek fresh, unique unwritten about harbingers of Spring. One used to be able to point to Braves Field, and connect the activity there with the first swallow. But the Braves are no longer in Braves Field. Perhaps one could point to the occult Rain Dance of the Hopi Indians as the first indication of the new season. But, while rain is a common feature of a Cambridge Spring, Hopi Indians are exceedingly rare, and one could never find enough together at one time to perform their Rain ceremony...
However, the dictator Fashion is a hard taskmaster. The season doesn't at all resemble Spring, but Spring fashions are upon us. Fashions are indeed the true harbinger of Spring--or any other season, for that matter...