Word: lamming
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...Detroit court, if relatives or friends agree to pay the amount set as bail should the defendant take it on the lam, the defendant may be released in the custody of those relatives or friends -or even of himself. No cash is lodged with the court...
South of Saigon, in the Mekong Delta, the nature of the enemy was laid bare in a gruesome incident. A Vietnamese force discovered 25 prisoners of the Viet Cong, mostly civilians and three of them women, shot in their chains at Phu Lam. Twenty were dead. The survivors disclosed that as the Vietnamese closed in, the retreating Viet Cong had told them that they could go free-then shot them in the back as they walked away in their chains...
...result is a range of materials-silver lamé, brocades and sequins-that never used to be in the swim. Such suits usually come with matching culottes or jackets that can be donned in a jiffy. From pool to poolside cocktails is a quick dab with a towel and a snap of a waistband...
...white mink coats, fills them with dark mink. Kaplan, who jazzes up his regular ranch-mink coats with shirt-cuff sleeves and double-breasted brass buttons, features a striking horizontally worked white mink with three wide black-velvet bands, and a $5,000 reversible "gaudy mink" that is gold lamé on one side, natural ranch on the other. Philosophizes Kaplan, who came within a thesis of a Ph.D. in philosophy: "For years, buying a mink was such a serious thing. When you spend that much money, you should have fun, not suffer." But then, to most people...
...Gold Lamé Trademark. When he debuted 25 years ago, Liberace was just the piano man (under the stage name Buster Keys) in a cocktail lounge in Wausau, Wis. His father, a French-horn player once in the Sousa band, thought that Wladziu might be better suited to undertaking.* But Liberace thought of himself as a prodigy, dropped his first two names in imitation of his idol, Paderewski, and within 14 years matched the Polish master in one respect: they are the only pianists in the world who have filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...