Word: mell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chanel principles of simplicity and elegance, the late fashion empress's own line-by Balenciaga-trained Ramon Esparza-ironically fell flat. Though WWD Publisher John Fairchild found the collection "young and different," it was all but hooted out of Paris by local authorities. "An incredible pell-mell of belted raglans, monkey-trimmed redingotes, hippy waistcoats, red rainproofs and dollie-see-through dresses," Le Figaro concluded unbelievingly. "They look like bad copies of good originals...
Married. Abraham Ribicoff, 62, senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut, former state Governor and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Kennedy; and Lois Mell Mathes, 50, Miami civic leader; she for the third time, he for the second; in Washington...
...Pell-Mell Rush. The increasing number of scientists involved in research projects has helped to ensure a hot, often ungentlemanly competition for the Nobel Prize and the other honors that follow in its wake. This is apparent in the pell-mell rush to publish results of experiments-some of them later proved faulty-in scientific journals just to establish priority of discovery. In his unusually candid book The Double Helix, Nobel Prizewinner James Watson confessed to another questionable practice. Determined to unravel the complex structure of the DNA molecule before Caltech's famed chemist Linus Pauling...
Beamed to millions of TV viewers in the U.S., Europe and the Far East, and covered by more than 500 journalists, the Thanksgiving Day classic in Norman, Okla., more than lived up to its billing. Minutes after the opening kickoff, Rodgers set the pell-mell pace for the day. Hauling in a punt, he stumbled, recovered, started to his right, cut to his left and then went lickety-split down the sidelines for a 72-yd. score. Oklahoma countered with a field goal, but then lost a fumble that led to another Nebraska touchdown The Sooners, using the Wishbone...
...about conventional family life have also led to the growth of another phenomenon: the "single-parent family." No longer fearful about complete ostracism from society, many single girls who become pregnant now choose to carry rather than abort their babies and to support them after birth without rushing pell-mell into what might be a disastrous marriage...