Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overly concerned about France? France ceased to be a world power when it became the center of the world of fashion...
Time to Change. Up on Squaw Hill, in the three-story, columned gubernatorial mansion, Mike pursues a rollicking, split-second family life. The eight little 'itches have to be undressed in assembly-line fashion for their showers; the mansion's third floor is blocked off ("We're always losing Dominic," says Matilda); Band-aids, next to food and clothing, are the big expense, what with the children falling downstairs or sliding too fast down the bannisters, or falling off the gubernatorial totem pole that stands outside. After dinner and a session of TV-watching, church-going Roman...
...nation could then be called to pronounce freely and in sovereign fashion on the constitutional reform that the higher interests of democracy demand...
...dollars at a Democratic fund-raising party with some hokumy sleight of hand, included in his act a cautious display of rope twirling. Also in the spirit of things was leggy Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior Senator Richard Neuberger, who for the party's fashion show slithered out on stage in a figure-hugging one-piece bathing suit, with companion checked beach coat...
Waiting for Trouble. In similar fashion, the dates of Vice President Nixon's visit to Latin America were well known in advance, and skilled agitators had only to direct a directionless mob to appropriate targets (see THE HEMISPHERE). In France, quite a different set of ambitious men (not Communist at all) anxiously watched the discontent that had long been fermenting in the exasperations of a 20-year recessional of unwon wars, in an army's disgust at political restrictions on all-out colonial defense, in a paratrooper mentality that blamed all military frustrations on the cynical surrenders...