Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambassador," Long said, "came out, pointed his finger at me like this and said sharply, 'Are you Mr. Long?'" Long said Diem then pointed at each of the other three students (including Long's wife Nguyen Hoi Chan '68) in the same fashion...
More than 500 spectators, most of them curious students, paid 50 cents a head to watch the historic struggle. The McGill team was neatly dressed, after the English fashion. Seeing their opponents so nattily attired, the Harvard players were mortified for they wore no special uniform. The players had not felt called upon to indulge in such extravagance. Each man wore dark trousers, a white undershirt, and a magenta handkerchief tied around his head, as was the custom with the Harvard crews...
...helped shep herd that year's sweeping civil rights bill into law, Dirksen abruptly appointed himself field marshal of the liberals' forces. Together with a squad of his lawyers known as "Dirksen's Bombers," Ev spent more than two days in negotiations with Senate liberals to fashion a compromise bill. The legislation that emerged would affect an estimated total of 44.6 million of the roughly 65 million housing units in the nation...
...dispute, but a central preoccupation, suggests Rees, was homosexuality. Nor was it confined to this group. At both Oxford and Cambridge in the period between the World Wars, writes Rees, "homosexuality, among undergraduates and dons with pretensions to culture and a taste for the arts, was at once a fashion, a doctrine and a way of life." It also reached well beyond the university. Since Oxford and Cambridge produced the governing classes of Britain, the whole social fabric was deeply dyed with a homosexual sensibility...
...could fit in her boudoir. That (and she) took in quite a lot, but the insatiable sovereign nevertheless beat it down to the stables where, when the grooms gave out, she dallied with the dobbins. (She met her death, they say, while mounting a horse in a somewhat unusual fashion...