Word: hangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various jerseys, including wrinkleproof synthetic jerseys with synthetic names (Ban-Lon, Arnel, Orion Cantrece, Creslan, Acrilan and Zefran). They can be stuffed fearlessly, without preservative layers of tissue paper, into any suitcase corner, and the lumps disappear, without pressing, moments after the dress has been put on a hanger...
Departing Sydney for Calcutta, Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand's cliff-hanger extraordinary, labeled his upcoming nine-month expedition "the most important of its kind ever to go to the Himalayas." Its prime purpose: to conduct physiological tests atop the world's fifth-highest peak, Mount Makalu, which the party of 18 hopes to mount without oxygen tanks. But getting most of the headlines so far was an expedition sideline: Hillary's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Although he suspects that the abomination is just a snow job, Hillary is toting a special, hypodermic-firing blunderbuss with...
...Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young Ike-o served an apprenticeship as sneak thief, pimp, and hanger-on of Catfish Gedunsky, a small-time politician, until the army drafted him before the start of the Korean war. Months later, he was out again on a dishonorable discharge, but dressed up as a paratrooper and Claiming a hero s wel come back on Mechanic Avenue...
...which they have long been arguing was recently extended to newspapers and radio stations in a Mississippi murder trial. The details of the case were particularly spicy: the defendant was a 20-year-old college student accused of killing his 31-year-old married mistress by wrapping a coat hanger around her neck. Given near-complete freedom of the courtroom by the presiding judge, newsmen tape-recorded testimony with equipment so sensitive that it could pick up the whispered conversations of the defense attorneys...