Word: pith
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...hard it is to make meaningful relationships with people! It knocks me out the way he's always asking people, "Will you be my guru?" I know it sounds like one of those windy New Yorker stories about sensitive teen-agers growing up in India wearing pith helmets instead of red hunting hats. But Joe is telling it the way it really is, effendi...
...have painted 3,000 nudes. He once tattooed a watch on his wrist and a ring on his finger; when wealthier, he capped the radiator of his chauffeur-driven automobile with a Rodin bronze. He arrived in France from Japan in 1913 wearing a purple morning coat and a pith helmet; eleven years later he was the most fashionable painter in Paris. Tsugouharu Foujita, now 79, is a living souvenir of the days when the School of Paris was in kindergarten...
...fail to find God a proper subject for burlesque, nor do I perceive sportive fun in Boyd's theological meaning. Any candidates he finds for his saloon conversions will forget the pith of his message when they sober up in the morning, but Boyd will still be hung over in his spiritual vacuum...
Buildup Their green twill uniforms and tan pith helmets identified them as North Vietnamese regulars. Intelligence said they belonged to Ho Chi Minh's 324B Division, which the U.S. Marines had routed out of South Viet Nam in Oper ation Hastings in July. Back up to full strength, the division was once more on the move. Advance units had infiltrated back across the supposedly neutral de militarized zone, perhaps to secure a foothold from which Ho's invaders could launch a major offensive...
...Coral Sea, he largely confined himself to an avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials in crisp kepis stood side by side with their British counterparts in pith helmets as De Gaulle, without a flinch, cried: "Vive la France, Vive le Royaume...