Word: plait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There will be changes at home, too. "Folk-art of all kinds has a pleasantly second-class air. Looms should be brought to cottage doors, old men should plait osiers in full view of the traffic, and smithies must have wide-open doors. The riding of bicycles by royalty should be introduced gradually, in an unobtrusive way. Rioting by students at universities is already well under way, but there is still too much namby-pambyism. The use of stones and tear-gas by the respective sides is overdue. One or two professors must be killed." Parliament needs shaking up: "There...
...best Angus breeder in his area he bought "Big Boy," the finest animal Joe has ever owned. To fatten Big Boy for showing, Joe fed him three times a day; he washed him every Saturday, groomed his hide with oil and got grandmother Carver to put a good square plait in his tail. Result: at the 1949 International Livestock Exposition in Chicago, Big Boy won 16th place among the nation's best Angus, and Joe, kissing Big Boy's poll, got his picture in the Chicago Tribune...
...Nere (Colette) finds that she is in love again, she writes, "I tremble too much lest I should see rising, through the veil of the rain, a country garden, green and black, silvered by the rising moon which passes the shadow of a young girl dreamily winding her long plait around her wrist, like a caressing snake...
...Gaunt Faces. In such a book, arrangement counts heavily. Picture History's twelve sections skillfully plait far-flung but interrelated events into a clean-cut chronology. The result is a sense of historical meaning, from Hitler's first martial rumbles to the dramatic ceremony on the deck of the Missouri. Much of the book's clean impact comes from the 75,000-word text, written mostly by Novelist John Dos Passos and TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. Closely wedded to the pictures, their text is at once sharp description and lucid interpretation...