Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peron & Co. had plotted in the same fashion against the government of Brazil, working through Dr. Raimundo Padilha, Fascist leader in hiding there. The objects: to undermine Brazil's pro-Allied Vargas; gradually to build an anti-U.S. bloc which would include not just a few nations but a whole hemisphere...
...Council so far had avoided that point of final decision, certain to be reached some day, when the as yet untried veto would enter. But that point had not been evaded at the cost of either integrity or action. The Council had been able to act, in a fashion galling to proud Russia, and to survive...
Renie, mononymic Hollywood fashion designer, peered into the future, spied something eye-bugging: "transparent covering over the bosom for cocktail and evening clothes-and complete exposure in some instances." To the surprise of few, the Hollywood-Broadway axis straightway began to bare its collective breast...
...colorfully-the most notable television demonstration of the year. In CBS's Manhattan studio, Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, 39-year-old, Hungarian-born inventor of color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand is great enough...
...Dept. In Manhattan, the Men's Fashion Guild happily predicted that yellow pants, for spring, would make men less tense, less neurotic...