Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course there are the outright examples of conformity. There are the blue suits consigned to decay the first week of the Freshman year, along with a palm beach jacket, some "loud" ties, and a few shirts with the "wrong" type" collar. The accents and the mannerisms take a little more time, but not much...
...males toward the lovely women whom she ostensibly pictures. The pages teem with agonized girls burning button-down shirts they are trying to iron; with fearful owls who have VC emblazoned on their chests; with dungareed, odd-shaped beauties whanging guitars; and with mink-coated so-phisticates dreaming of palm trees and sun (apparently there is little of the latter in "the Pough...
They planned one day to meet on a palm-shaded lanai in sight of the swimming pool and then, to avoid nosy newsmen, switched with their retinue (five lawyers), like French-farce husbands, from the Atwater Kent Suite to the Mary Martin Suite to the parquet-floored Terrace Room. They looked and acted like directors of General Motors come to dream about new models, but they were the General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters trying to work their way out of trouble...
Terrified villagers termed the Devil King's new order Dao Lui, the Religion of the Sword, because his men, whether earthbound, high-flying or invisible, are addicted to murdering their victims by plunging their pikes through the palm-leaf walls of village huts. Recently the late Ba Cut's mother reportedly joined the Devil King, bringing with her several hundred of Ba Cut's old followers. The Devil King ordered them to let their beards grow down to their navels, administered an oath during which the newcomers drank one another's blood mixed with rice wine...
...Saigon police court along with four other members of an auto-stealing gang, one Roberto Borsetti explained that Father Jacques had financed the new parish school by selling stolen cars. The cars, 17 in all, were snatched by Borsetti's crooks at night, driven into a palm-thatched workshop in the churchyard, repainted and turned over, complete with forged license plates and bills of sale, to Father Jacques, who admitted accepting some of them "as gifts for the church charities...