Word: gait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán had done it again. The rabble-rousing Liberal leader followed up his victory in the congressional elections last March by another in last week's municipal voting. Henceforth, Liberals will control 465 municipal councils, Conservatives 321. Gaitán had mopped up among the workers in the newly industrialized towns and cities, more than offsetting Conservative gains in the countryside, where twelve people died in Harlan-County-style election-night fights...
Conservative Manifesto. Sophie has always been content to let more flashy designers go their own gait, and doesn't worry about trying to set a trend. She believes in the maxim that the best-dressed women follow the fashions at a discreet distance. Her style is to be simple and unaffected. Says she: "I try to make a woman look as sexy as possible and yet look like a perfect lady." Many women want to look like that. Consequently, Sophie probably sells more clothes than any other designer, with the possible exception of her archrival, Hattie Carnegie...
...conservative officials of Boston's museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...
...Their Sturdy Gait. Finland is a country of free speech. The joke I heard most often concerns the 1,000-Finnmark note. On this large, lavender note a group of Finns-men, women & children, all naked-are pictured facing a body of water. There is no ship in the picture, but the presence of one is suggested by a large mooring hawser the people are holding. The Finns delighted in telling me that this "symbolizes Finland in 1952, gazing at the last shipload of reparations leaving for Russia...
...really believe that, and that's why it's a good joke to them. They know that in 1947, as in 1937, they have more clothes and food and freedom than their Russian neighbors. They know that if they can continue to go at their own sturdy gait, 1952 will see them still relatively better off than the average Russian...