Word: furs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While some of your venturesome Americans have recently "discovered" the shapka [Feb. 16] and associate it with Communism, we Canadians have been wearing this headgear for more than 50 years and prefer the more unattractive name of fur wedge...
...after that, 70% of the thymecto-mized group became lethargic, and wasted away, with ruffled fur and a hunched posture. They developed diarrhea and died within three weeks. Yet if thymus removal was postponed until the mice were a week or more old, they rarely developed these disorders-and never, if the operation was done after three weeks...
...streets of big cities in the nation's cold belt this year are abob with something dashing and radical in men's headgear: shapkas-fur hats. They are worn not by visiting Russians but by venturesome Americans who have discovered that the shapely shapka has the advantage over the standard felt hats: it is warm and comfortable...
...wearing them downtown-in Washington, Chicago, New York and Boston. Eager to keep the boomlet going, importers and U.S. manufacturers are supplying a variety of styles, mostly in greys, blacks and browns, that range in price from $85 for a karakul number to $3.95 for a bargain-basement ersatz fur. Following their own mysterious impulses, women also seemed to have got that Slavic feeling: the most conspicuous new hat style on female heads this winter has been a high-fashion version of the shapka that looks like a furry coal scuttle...
Joan put a sweater and skirt over her dress, a fur stole across her shoulders and crossed the border in a friend's car. Her husband had been given permission to make a brief visit to the Hamburg Opera. Heinrich turned the key on the apartment and all their possessions, next morning boarded the Hamburg Express. Last week Heinrich sat proudly in the third row of the Hannover Opera House watching his wife give a startlingly vivid performance in Alban Berg's Lulu. Coloratura Carroll's flight had ended in the beginning of a fine new career...