Word: headdressed
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...easy to forget the gyrating girl in a glowworm mini, all surging emotion boiling up through swirls of curses and Southern Comfort in a Dixie cup. Or the single vivid impression recorded in the mind's eye that, without the scalding voice and tremulous ostrich plume headdress, she was really rather small...
...blistering June day in 1967 when Israel almost wiped it off the map. The old frontier is a rusting jumble of barbed wire and garbage, and the village has the same sleepy, slightly disheveled air that it had before. Men wearing the keffiyeh, the traditional black and white checkered headdress, sit around in circles drinking muddy Turkish coffee and playing shesh-besh (backgammon). The muezzin of the large Moslem mosque snoozes on a straw mat, waking periodically to give the wailing call to prayer...
...weeks ago New York newspapers played up what looked like a Halloween-party picture in June. It showed a shapely young woman who was wearing the headdress of a ghost costume and a revolver tucked in her belt. The lady was an undercover agent for the New York Police Department, testifying before a crime committee. She claimed that a narcotics indictment based on her work had been thrown out by the D.A. because it fingered one of his personal friends...
Nyet to Da. Kosygin's four-day itinerary included a visit with Cuban workers during which he was presented with a hard hat to go with his Indian headdress. Two days were spent in discussions at the Palace of the Revolution, followed by a 460-mile flight to Santiago de Cuba. The plane arrived two hours late in a driving rainstorm. Nothing more momentous happened. Then had Kosygin come only to bolster Fidel's feelings? The best guess was that the Soviet Premier, who keeps watch over Moscow's foreign economic arrangements while Leonid Brezhnev supervises...
That does not mean that the chief approves of all of the white man's ways. He appreciates the merits of democracy; the chieftain's headdress he wore for twelve years was won by popular election. Yet he is gravely concerned about some of the ignoble byproducts of civilization. "The biggest part of my work is helping our children," he says. "Now that they attend white schools, they've been getting into trouble. They're adopting the white philosophy, and drugs for the first time are becoming a problem to our people. In the beginning...