Word: loin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sadhu, they consented to cry, "All Hail to the Hindu God Ramachandra." Released at last, they staggered away and called the police. Next day, five policemen on bicycles and an officer on horseback rode into Mokhimpur to interrupt a scene of nightmare revelry. The men dressed only in loin cloths, the women with their saris tucked up high above their knees, the Baghbhans were doing a wild dance around their sadhu, who himself was playing a screeching air on the flute. As the police approached, the dancing stopped, and the dancers, seizing spades, sticks and axes, raced screaming to attack...
...favorite target for the hordes of self-appointed holy men (estimated total: 8,000,000) who roam all over India like carnival medicine men in the frontier U.S., wandering the face of the land in search of a quick rupee, with little to attest to their powers but a loin cloth, a straggly beard and a fanatic mien...
MEAT PRICES WILL DROP this winter. Record slaughters and recent drops in wholesale hog prices have cut the retail price of pork chops by 6%, loin roast by 10%, bacon 2%, ham 5%, with more reductions in prospect straight through until next March. Beef prices, which have been rising, will follow the trend, are expected to start dropping next month...
Sauce for the Gander. In Chicago, Vito Piovosi, seeking an injunction to keep wife Helen from molesting him, testified that when he cooked a roast loin of pork for Sunday dinner, she: 1) shouted, "What, no applesauce?" 2) threw roast and platter at him, 3) picked up the platter and broke it over his head, knocking him unconscious, 4) poured hot gravy over him as he lay on the floor, 5) stalked out of the house and never returned...
...curves, made her night-club debut in the Sahara, a Las Vegas saloon, and proved that "my brand of sex" is still a basic barroom commodity. Mae's brand consisted of herself and "the first barechest act for lady customers in history"-eight muscle-bound young men in loin-cloutish Bikinis, one of them the current "Mr. America," the rest onetime contenders for the title. All in all, Mae's troupe proved invigorating even for jaded