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...space-conscious Army brass, reporters gathered brief quotes at every step from reveille to taps (sample: "I had a good night's sleep, and I decided to get up"), gleefully watched the Presley poll being pared by a civilian barber, snapped for posterity US 53310761-whose normal garb runs to cat boots, loud sports jackets and open-necked shirts-in a singularly unpressed set of fatigues...
...packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters and gestures just right, Bruegel liked to dress in peasant's garb, attended the village festivals, probably danced and drank at the very weddings and country dances he later put down on canvas...
...joker's motley garb...
Pink Hats for Wooing. Among the busiest hustlers were the twelve Burmese delegates, all in their native garb of longyi (skirt) and gaung baung (pink gauze cap). Said U Tin U, private businessman and government mining adviser: "I am here to woo American miners. I want to convince them of the possibilities of exploitation of my country." He pointed out that Burma's government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from...
...movie relentlessly propels Dr. Helga Reinbeck toward a pitiless, inescapable end. Typhus cuts down scores of the Yugoslav fighters. Their medicine supplies run out. Helga and a woman partisan (Barbara Rutting), veiled in the garb of Moslem peasants, steal into a Nazi-held town to retrieve a cache of drugs concealed there. After the other woman is killed, Helga, bearing the medicines, sets off alone across a bridge, ignoring the fusillades that crackle from both banks of the river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize...