Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confided to him: "I've been contacted to find a pilot to fly someone out of China." The passenger, said Bush, turned out to be a British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage by the Chinese Communists. The two men took a four-hour boat ride across the Pearl
...match was 8 to 1, and the outcome was never in doubt because of UNC's weakness at the bottom singles position and in the doubles teams. The Crimson won all the doubles by easy, 2-0 scores and took the bottom two singles in equally handy fashion...
...Harry Levin's Contexts of Criticism, made some perceptive criticisms of the validity of the academic approach to literature; however, Mr. Jencks has drawn some remarkable moral conclusions from his aesthetic arguments. Mr. Levin, it seems, has committed a "sin" against mankind in pursuing his career in his particular fashion...
...mind and muscle, of man's power and industrial might. The painting evokes an epoch in the history of American art, a period of revolt against "pretty pictures," of the discovery of a new world for the painter to paint. Applying the new techniques then coming into fashion, Painter Stella chose for his subject that typically American scene, the manmade, industrialized landscape...
...smile was invariably radiant. But perhaps the diplomatic device by which Elizabeth most thoroughly endeared herself to the exquisitely gowned ladies of Paris was to accept their curtsies in gowns some of which, according to catty French experts, were at least a couple of years behind the fashion...