Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser is also cornered by circumstance. He is reluctant to get too closely tied to the Communists (and has several times in recent weeks cracked down on more conspicuous Communist propaganda efforts), but in his usual self-justifying fashion blames his predicament on the West. He was astonished at the hostile reaction observed when he "Egyptianized'' all foreign business. He thought he was just taking one more step toward purging Egypt of exploiting foreigners, apparently expected British and French investors would still invest in all-Egyptian enterprises-even though posters all over Egypt depict the British and French...
Back to the 19th Century? The Congregationalist president of Amherst College, Charles Woolsey Cole, takes a more hopeful view of the phenomenon-at least at college level. In Harper's he writes: "Youth at present is almost completely monogamous in a thoroughly established fashion, and it is aggressively sure that its customs and ways are right...
Certain to start in today's all-important Eli match will be Dave Johnson and Dave Sweet in foil, who as beginners have developed in the fashion which Marion desires. Pete Kane, who was substituted in epee against Bradford-Durfee, has looked very good in both events all year, but is handicapped by earlier training in the sport...
...Friday Harbor he was handed the keys to a new 20-room, $23,000 clinic, the finest in the area, financed by gifts from grateful patients and summer visitors. There were plenty of speeches, but after the ceremony Dr. Heath could hardly wait to celebrate in his usual fashion when something makes him particularly happy-he dances his Tri-Pacer over the blue waters...
...husband's career as his own abilities. Some U.S. corporations have taken to interviewing wives before hiring or promoting executives, others regularly appraise executive wives by visits to the home or at corporate parties. A few even provide seminars and conferences for wives in an attempt to fashion the ideal executive helpmate. All this has prompted a string of articles, fiction and movies depicting the ideal "Mrs. Executive" -a woman who furthers her husband's career by molding herself into the pattern of corporate living, helping to achieve success by an endless round of professional sociability...