Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guepiere; be padded out the front hip bones and used every known trick of the art of couture in elaborately constructing his models. To add the ultra-feminine look of these costumes, Dior added small flowered hats with veils, high-heeled shoes, colored gloves to match a buttonhole or handkerchief, long slim umbrellas to tone with shoes and bag, and two or four strings of pearls...
Several officers desperately tried to move their pinned-down men off the beach. But there were only four heavily defended exit roads and the bluffs ahead. "They're murdering us here!" cried Colonel Charles D. Canham, commander of the 116th Regiment, a blood-soaked handkerchief around his wounded wrist. "Let's move inland and get murdered...
...then visited Leningrad's only Jewish Orthodox synagogue. At first, we were stopped because we didn't have yarmulkes, but the Russian man ripped his handkerchief in two. We then placed the torn halves on our heads and went inside...
...journeyman hits just about the right tone most of the time. He writes well, for instance, but not so well that he seems to be waving a perfumed handkerchief about the landscape. By his campfire after a day of fishing, when it is time to throw a cliché on the flames, he comes up with a good, chunky one: "I woke just once during the night, when a Union Pacific freight train wailed in the distance...
Outrageousness is clearly necessary to prevent this mistiness from reaching the boohoo stage-no one wants to wave a soggy handkerchief-and by tradition the two bands have been designated to provide the desired vulgarity. A month before the 1962 Game, held in Cambridge, Mass., members of the Harvard band paraded through New Haven at 4:30 a.m., concertizing at full volume; seven of them were arrested. This sort of thing is expected, as are naughty formations and cheers of startling crudity. A fungus of tastefulness has formed in the past few years on both sets of musical pranksters, however...