Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually impossible. In a frenzy of rage, Castro laid ambushes along the major highways. Burnt-out cars and buses studded the roads, and Santiago, capital of Oriente, was virtually cut off. To make...
This fear came just as the British were celebrating, in mannerly fashion, the fact that for the first time in this century they succeeded in closing their trade gap in the first half of this year. Achieving a $383.6 million surplus of visible exports over imports was a satisfying feeling, even if the victory was apt to be temporary and was largely owed to the currently depressed price of raw materials. When the common market comes into being, however, they will be faced with a probable 29% duty on all English cars they hope to sell on the Continent. This...
Technical progress and fashion fads can lead to baldness in both men and women, reports London's erudite medical journal, the Lancet. One sure cause is a certain type of nylon hairbrush, and it took keen detective work by London Dermatologist Agnes Savill to find this out. A man of 27 went to her with a triangular bald spot, getting persistently bigger, on the side of his head. Dr. Savill found many short hairs of unequal length, some with frayed ends. Her conventional treatments-oil and massage-did no good, but when the patient switched to an old-fashioned...
...fashion, the Lancet reports: "Adolescent girls smitten by the equine folly wear their hair in 'pony tails,' which tends to drag out the hair at the temples. This form of baldness is endemic in Greenland . . . Loss of hair is seen in American Negro women who paradoxically want to make their hair straight...
...Real Phony. Breakfast at Tiffany's takes place, flashback-fashion, in 1943, and is full of stationary action: his room, her room, and a Lexington Avenue bar. His room contains Holly's Platonic friend, a fledgling writer whom she calls Buster. Holly's room contains unopened suitcases and unpacked crates frequently decorated with filled martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating...