Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this fall. They're showing full fashioned camel hair sweaters with saddle shoulders from England, including a V-neck pullover at $24.50 and a cardigan for $29.50. Sak's also features the 100 per cent camel hair wool blazer. This natural shoulder model with three pearl buttons and flap pockets sells for $69.50. Topping off a three piece camel ensemble is a handsome cotton or heek suede outerwear jacket with up sleeves and a full sherpa lining. The shawl collar, raglan shoulder, slash pockets, and leather buttons light this imported jacket from mark. It comes in old gold and olive...
Hair of the Hog. Even getting at the aneurysm, which is nearly always at the base of the brain in the arterial traffic rotary ("circle of Willis"), is a major operation. It involves sawing through and lifting a flap of skull and moving the brain out of the way. The commonest method of treatment has been to tie off the aneurysm at its stem with a tiny silver clip, or close the artery with clips on each side of the stem. Dr. Gallagher was not satisfied with these methods because merely touching the aneurysm to attach a clip might cause...
...radar swept rhythmically over the icecap, back came strong reflections that showed as targets on the radar screens. This was just what BMEWS was built for. Warning of possible missile attack flashed across ice and tundra to the North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs; a frantic flap spread over the continent. Airbases waited for red alerts, their bombers poised on the runways. Roused out of bed at home in Moorestown, Holmes listened carefully to a telephoned description of the frightening signals and realized what must have happened. Radar pulses from Thule had soared far beyond Russia...
...Toboggan. After the Clague flap, the White House ordered that economic pronouncements were to be limited to the top men-Kennedy, Treasury Secretary Dillon, Commerce Secretary Hodges and Chief Economic Adviser Heller. Even then, they were to be made soaringly, and Heller, in Paris for a 20-nation economic meeting, kept a tight lip when questioned about the stock-market slump...
...Western rejections of Moscow's "reasonable" requests, the Russians might try to walk out of the Air Safety Center, and hand their role over to Communist satellite East Germany, which desperately wants to assert its own sovereignty. But by week's end, the whole air corridor flap seemed more a test of nerve than anything else. When the U.S., Britain and France fired off blunt, angry notes warning Moscow that it was "running the gravest risk," the Russian nuisance flights abruptly ended and a Soviet official in Berlin announced that all requests for exclusive air space...