Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito, after his fashion, had been reciprocating. Last week a wave of political arrests in Yugoslavia rounded up people suspected of being too friendly with the Americans and British. Reports came from Belgrade that more reservists, in smart new Russian-type uniforms, were being called up. No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center...
...much of a surprise to Henry Rosenfeld as to many competitors. Pinched by higher material and labor costs, they had to move into higher price lines or turn out merchandise that looks far cheaper than the price tags say. Henry has no magic formula except mass production and the fashion trick of making the small-budgeted woman like what she sees in the mirror...
...from Egypt and the hitch in the Cairo negotiations. Churchill insisted that British troops stay in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal. Replied Bevin: "It is not a very popular thing now in international affairs to maintain troops on other people's soil. It is becoming out of fashion...
...Senate dropped everything, and in whirlwind fashion passed unanimously a resolution extending the draft until July i. Within 30 minutes this expedient, conceived in haste, had reached the House. The lower chamber, not to be stampeded, considered qualifying amendments right up to this week's deadline. But somehow, the draft would limp along a while longer...
...official Liberal candidate, 45-year-old bachelor Dr. Gabriel Turbay, had held practically every office except the presidency, could debate and orate in the most admired fashion, but had the political misfortune of being born (in Colombia) of Syrian parents. His detractors called him "el Turco." He had the backing of the powerful Colombian Confederation of Workers...