Word: pimento
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sherman Holcombe, once-suspended Shop Steward of the Radcliffe Dining Halls, comes out of self-imposed retirement to release his autobiography, entitled Pimento. It is co-authored by Lillian Hellman, who claims that "like me, Sherman was the victim of a witch-hunt." Holcombe shakes up the press conference by telling Hellman to "speak for yourself...
...Hero. Typical of the designers whom the guild likes to discover and promote is Georgia Michaud, 27. Michaud's designs, many using hand-dyed hospital gauze, are simple and versatile: for example, a pimento handkerchief-style dress that can go to the beach in the morning and the disco at night. Linda Somers, 33, works in chamois and deerskin. Her clothes are expensive: her black deerskin tiered skirt costs $230, her chamois bathing suit $50 and chamois beach cover...
Within no time, the Davidson Wildcats were as hungry as ole Lefty. To beef up a puny $500 recruiting budget, he siphoned off the bulk of the team's meal money by feeding the players pimento-cheese sandwiches, once even sending them to bed without supper after they lost six games in a row. In the off season he logged 50,000 miles on the back roads of the South and beyond, searching for talent. He parked in gas stations overnight, bedding down in the back of the car with a pistol for protection. At dawn, he would shave...