Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indecent-exposure charge, he concealed his own paunchy frame in the allegedly diaphanous towel that had covered her on the night in question, so convulsing the jury that the case was laughed out of court. In his desk drawer he kept Lili's black lace panties as a trophy of the victory...
Through the Doors. On one side of the stark stage set in the Mannheim National Theater, a white door was hung with white lace curtains representing the "Door of Life"; on the other side a purple door, draped with a heavy purple mourning curtain, represented the "Door of Death." Moving between life and death, members of the Bayard family moved across the years between 1840 and 1930, their varied history remembered at a continuous Christmas dinner...
...operation had flourished since 1955, when Comrades Gazenfranz and Appelbaum arrived in Frunze, capital of Soviet Central Asia's Kirghiz Republic, with a proposition for the director of the state-owned knit-goods mill. Instead of producing sweaters, they suggested, why not overcome the drastic shortage of curtain lace, a commodity highly prized both as a status symbol and as the only way to secure privacy in a land without window shades or blinds. The trio promptly set to work importing machinery and bribing officials, including the capital's chief economic planner. Thanks to bribes, the lace...
Cooperation. With this credo, La Générale has built up a 15-ft. by 45-ft. library of stock certificates, which represent effective control of corporations worth $1 billion to $2 billion. Through a pattern of interlocking directorates as intricate as a piece of Brussels lace, La Générale controls 10% of Belgium's economic life-including one-third of its steel and coal production, three-quarters of its nonferrous metals output, and chunks of its banking, electricity, transport and armaments. With a bare 17% of its investments...
Guardian Spirit. As the Queen's plane touched the ground, a 21-gun salute boomed out. Wearing a cream-colored lace dress and a matching suede hat, the Queen shook hands warmly with a smiling, white-suited Nkrumah. A white-robed fetish priest then poured a tot of gin on the ground as a libation to the gods to ensure the Queen a safe visit. Said one onlooker: "Osagyefo needs that libation for safety more than Her Majesty does...