Word: melon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether Lady Bird will set new fashions for U.S. women remains a question. She is a perfect size ten (5 ft. 4 in., 114 Ibs.), wears various shades of orange, yellow, coral and melon because Lyndon likes bright hues. When she appears in something more subdued, he is apt to growl, "Don't wear those old 'muley' colors...
...piece, wrote a letter to congressional leaders supporting a joint resolution to name the proposed National Cultural Center after J.F.K. He motored across the Potomac to address top Pentagon staffers on the virtues of cutting costs (see following story), breakfasted on tea and Spanish melon with congressional leaders to drive home the point that Defense Department expenditures had to be trimmed...
...closing number, Miss Washington, stacked like the melon gallery, appeared in a mass of red taffeta. She pulled her rip cord, and there she stood-after all, it is the nation's capital-not quite nude. An aw-gee string. A suggestion of red taffeta there-there and there...
...York Yankees' Frank Crosetti: his 31st World Series melon, a winner's share of $9,882, giving him a record total of $141,949 in Series money as player and coach...
Four toughs burst by night into the palazzo of a cardinal, who "looked up irritably. His ambitions had scooped him out like a melon. There was no one left inside to be taken by surprise . . ."A man is stationed at a prison: "For the first time in his life he had others at his mercy. Any man who has ever been a prisoner longs to be a guard. Children like to re-enact the crucifixion. Rejected lovers dream of murder. The tortured are fascinated by the rack. In their sleep the humbled pull down whole towns...