Word: pleats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that country which Wellington had left to the French and the Portuguese guerrillas. He could be shocked (as the reader will be) by the cruelty of his guerrilla comrades toward prisoners and the wounded, but the sight and the infliction of death never so much as put a pleat in his brain. The hungry French gratefully killed stray dogs, and roasted rats; Dodd as gratefully subsisted on raw horse liver and roast mule...
Democracies have always built as they fought. Is the modern pattern to adjust the last pleat before inviting the neighbors into the new house...
...Suits with shorter jackets, with slash instead of patch pockets, kick-pleat instead of box-pleat skirts...