Word: pantsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On a visit to a jungle village in South Sudan, Salem unabashedly whipped off his pants and, clad only in underdrawers, joined a host of naked natives in a wild tribal dance. Delighted picture editors the world over promptly dubbed him "the dancing major," and British diplomats, who lost out...
Pakistan's limpid-eyed ex-Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, 45, ambassador to the U.S. for 15 months in 1952-53, was reappointed to his old striped-pants post in the capital. On getting the tidings, Washington's hostesses knitted aging brows. Their problem: If Ali, recently married to...
For six years, Park Forest's kindergarten admissions policy was conventional: any child who became five before Sept. i automatically got in. Those who reached that age before Dec. 31 had to take a standard test; last year about 10% of those tested were flunked. But then Park Forest...
At the employee's hearing in 1954, says the Yarmolinsky report: "The attorney adviser [to the loyalty board] inquired about reading habits, and found out that the employee seldom strayed beyond the sports page. He was asked what headlines attracted his attention and whether he followed the U.N. . . . Then...
Many an American thinks of British newspapers as a logical extension of traditional striped-pants British reserve, formality and respectability. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Except for the three "quality" dailies-the Times of London, Manchester Guardian, and London's Daily Telegraph (combined circ. 1.4 million...