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Word: lapel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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From his solemn mien and the badge pinned defiantly on his lapel, anyone who spotted Orville Freeman on the street in recent weeks might have concluded that he was rehearsing for a cigarette commercial. And in fact, though his badge, I WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO THE BREAD TRUST, was hardly aimed at the consumer, the Secretary of Agriculture proved as unswitchable as they come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: AGRICULTURE Buttering the Bread Tax | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...ashes of Jawaharlal Nehru have long since disappeared into the silt of the Ganges, carrying with them the faint shadow of the rose he always wore in his lapel. Gone with the Pandit is the image of India as a moral bulwark of the "nonaligned" world, a pious mediator between the great powers. Gone with the jaunty jodhpurs and preachy pronouncements is the hope that India might soon be an economic success. Gone, too, are the pride and the confidence that inspired India in its formative years. India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned, a land without elan where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Pride & Reality | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...honors list came out, there they were, among the 1,800 names: Ringo Starr, 24, John Lennon, 24, Paul McCartney, 22, and George Harrison, 22, all appointed members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, thus entitled to put M.B.E. after their names and wear a silver lapel pin inscribed "For God and Empire." Her Majesty doesn't explain why she does these things. But after all, those boys have done a lot for Britain's balance of payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 18, 1965 | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...State House, talked to Kenyatta all afternoon and all the next morning. When the press was finally called into the walnut-paneled conference room, Obote was the picture of contrition. Silently, he sat at Kenyatta's side while the old man-wearing a jaunty red rose in his lapel-read a "joint communique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Africa: A Farewell to Arms | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...keep the ideas flowing and allow himself time for second thoughts requires split-second scheduling, and Anhalt has taken to dictating to himself into a tiny microphone clipped onto the lapel of his jacket and picked up by a transistorized tape recorder at his side as he tears along the superhighways in his cream-colored Lancia. The process has caused Anhalt to crack up three cars in the past two years. But the price is cheap. For Hollywood's busy scriptwriter, just another tax deduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Life of a Wordsmith | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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