Word: lapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olaa packing and fumigating plant, 150 girls grade and separate the blooms, insert the stems into small plastic vials which have wads of wet cotton inside and are fitted with lapel pins. The flowers are air-expressed to mainland customers, who pay 10? to 15? a blossom...
While loudspeakers blared Strauss waltzes, alternating with the Internationale, comrades milled among the booths, past anti-American posters, right into the arms of 3,000 Communist girls with red flowers in their hair, who insistently sold lapel badges marked "Unita." No merrymaker could really begin to enjoy himself in peace until he had a badge in his buttonhole and a copy of Unita protruding from his pocket...
...Bruce begged off. Ambassadors, he said, ought not to take medals from foreign governments. "The main thing I want from you," he said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...
...desperation was no defense, and the long arm of the law soon grabbed him where his lapel should be. But upon hearing of his plight they took pity. He was listed as a sleepwalker...
Truffles from Rome. He gave them diamonds and Rolls-Royces, took to wearing gold replicas of their profiles in his lapel. By the time Perón's election and inauguration were over, Don Alberto had become a permanent house guest in the presidential residence. The Perón government threw almost all its shipping contracts to him, lent him money to buy more ships, granted him many another fat favor. It went all-out on a long-ignored demand for indemnity on a Dodero ship that had been sunk by the Nazis in 1940. In addition...