Word: plaids
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...collected several thousand tribesmen, a dozen or more disaffected sheiks and sultans, a few embittered pretenders to the various petty thrones, and is waging a fugitive war on the British. The turbaned Yemeni guerrillas are a barefoot rabble carrying unoiled Mausers, curved knives, and wearing knee-length skirts of plaid material like kilts. The headquarters of the fighting is a picturesque medieval city called Ibb, with old walls, high towers and beautiful gates...
...Long Gray Line creeps forward with its study cards, as the sun, elsewhere, sets toward the 5 p.m. deadline. In the foreground, a baby, which was born and grew up before the last of the students had reached the doors of University Hall, gurgles quietly in a Scotch Plaid stroller. The student rushing off in the background had arrived early but spent most of the afternoon looking up exam groups. Those who did not pass the doors on or before 5 p.m. were charged the traditional ten dollar fine. The fine, in the past, has been added to the tardy...
...fashioned marble mausoleums into modern buildings of shimmering glass, bright aluminum and soft background music, creating an inviting atmosphere that increases business. To call attention to itself, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society has even gone so far as to deck out its tellers and passbooks in gaudy Duncan plaid. Result: there were 2,200 new accounts in the first few months...
...Sandra Cordrey told him to go put his shot. But the blunder evolved into romance, and next spring the pair were "pinned." Sandra soon got bored with playing second fiddle to a big iron BB. Often when they went on a date, the shot went along in its little plaid bag. En route to dinner or dance, Parry usually managed to pass a convenient field. He would park, peel off his shirt and get off a few practice tosses-lest the evening wind up a total loss. Finally Sandra got fed up and sent Parry packing. In January 1955> transformed...
...more modern taste runs toward the plastic flasks which are unbreakable, although not very attractive. The silver flasks, or the glass ones covered with leather or plaid cloth, are more debonnaire, and more expensive...