Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson has above all been his own best cheerleader. "Get in your cars and come to the speakin'," he implores the streetside crowds that flock to see him. "You don't have to dress...
...fine liberal proposal in itself, but one that sounds more like liberal cant when contrasted with his general apathy toward economic matters. Finally, Bellotti has great faith that future economic growth will fill the treasury's coffers without increased tax revenues. Regrettably, he fails to explain why industry will flock to a state with astronomical property taxes or how, if these now vital taxes are cut, the state will keep operating. For, under state law, a planned deficit is illegal...
...will, within the foreseeable future, be in the hands of the most irresponsible government among the world's major powers. By all the good old rules of political reaction, these events should have strengthened President Johnson in his 1964 election run. In times of crisis, U.S. voters ordinarily flock to the cause of the man in office...
...fall, stretch is the biggest word in fashion. Sportswear manufacturers are designing stretch shirts, stretch shorts, stretch dungarees, stretch skirts, jumpers and jump suits (one-piece outfits, designed as lounge wear but equally at home in the cockpit). Lingerie makers, longtime fanciers of "the flexible look," are offering a flock of pliable bras and girdles, stretched the point with a nightgown topped in stretch lace and called "the Jean Harlow." The children's wear industry got busy on stretch coveralls and snowsuits. Men's wear merchandisers offered stretch slacks (no bagging at knees or seat...
...Shame of Spain." In stores that are indistinguishable from London shops 1,085 miles away, Hindu merchants do a roaring trade in duty-free Japanese radios, American cigarettes and German cameras. The 15,000 Spanish workers who flock to work in the colony each day - and take home more than $7,000,000 a year in relatively high British wages - make a lucrative second living from smuggling goods that can be sold for a hefty profit in highly taxed Spain. Irked by its loss of revenues as a result of smuggling, the Franco regime calls the British enclave the "shame...