Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chill statistics on unemployment rose in Detroit, the United Auto Workers' Boss Walter P. Reuther, 51, shivered at the thought of being seen or photographed at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council's traditional week-long session in a palm-fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders of the U.S. labor movement, more than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section...
Unceremoniously kicked out of their sea-air bases by newly independent and neutralist Ceylon, the British decided to set up new bases farther south on the placid island of Gan in the Maldives, a splatter of palm-fringed dots in the Indian Ocean 400 miles from Ceylon. There are only 93,000 Maldivians-nut-brown, peaceable folk who have been under the wing of the British Empire since 1802. The world has largely passed the Maldives by. But six years ago, after 800 years of Sultanate rule, the Maldives became a republic. Their first President abolished purdah, designed a Mother...
...compromise between being a punk and an egghead," explained Central High Senior Larry Cornine, 17. "Personally I don't want to look like either." But Forrest Reno, 19, recent ducktail convert to the Princeton cut, plays it cool. "How else can you comb your hair with the palm of your hand." he asks, "and have it look so neat...
...bride wore lace and a Juliet cap of pearls; the groom wore a .45 automatic and a ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
Requiem for a Nun (by William Faulkner) is a journey through the dark night of the soul with a hint of dawn beyond. Its characters do not have the stature for tragedy, yet it is dense with guilt, pity and terror, and it frequently grips the audience in its palm like sinners in the hands of an angry...