Word: kilted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Clinton arrived off Cape Fear with a small force in mid-March. But Commodore Parker's larger supporting fleet was delayed for two months, partly because of bad winds. By the time the two joined in May, the main Loyalist forces in North Carolina, some 1,800 kilt-wearing Scots colonials led by Allan Macdonald, had been long since routed by Patriot militia in the battle of Moore's Creek. Disappointed, Clinton and Parker sailed south...
...Ford Motor Co., a U.A.W. official turned up in a kilt and sporran, sporting a button that demanded a wage increase of 27.5%-JUST LIKE HENRY...
...crowded North Atlantic run in years. Caledonian launched its new flights April 1, to the accompaniment of a slick ad campaign that bills the company to American passengers as "the airline other airlines hate" because of the superior Scottish-style service provided by its pilots, baggage handlers and kilt-clad stewardesses...
...placed so close to the dancers that any illusion of reality is lost. As a result, in La Sylphide about a Scottish lord who falls in love with a wood nymph), as the camera glides coyly behind a plastic bush and peers out at Nureyev in white lipstick and kilt, nostrils flaring, the effect is more like a parody of Brigadoon than serious, classical ballet. In The Sleeping Beauty, it is grossly unfair to Lynn Seymour that the camera is close enough todistract the audience's attention from her accomplished performance tothe fact that she is not very attractive...
...Argyll and hereditary chief of Scotland's clan Campbell; following a stroke; in Edinburgh. After succeeding to the dukedom in 1949, Campbell shocked his fellow peers by opening the family estate at Inveraray Castle to paying visitors, then appearing in a U.S. magazine ad campaign as a kilt-clad salesman for Argyll socks...