Word: polos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homeless, and live, make love, sleep and die on city sidewalks, or in and around railway stations. Food that might sustain them is casually devoured by more than 50 million monkeys and some 50 million cattle roaming unchecked through the land. In the midst of poverty, there are polo-playing maharajahs who are among the world's richest men. And there are Indian millionaires who religiously feed ants to show their reverence for life, and lavish their charity not on hospitals or schools but on retirement farms for aging sacred cows. An estimated 7,000,000 Indians are unemployed...
...handle almost any task assigned it. The rank and file are northerners and mostly from that cradle of warriors, the Punjab. The Indian army officer sometimes appears to be the very, very model of the British tradition: he has probably attended Sandhurst, speaks with an Oxford accent, plays polo and cricket, wears a mustache and carries a swagger stick. The first-rate Indian air force uses British twin-jet Canberra bombers and French Mystere jet fighters -all obtained by purchase, since Nehru believes that military aid would compromise India's traditional neutrality...
Then those upstarts Out West decided that movie stars and smog weren't enough--they needed a baseball team also, two in fact. So the Giants finished third and the Dodgers seventh. 1959 prospects looked rosy. Then the ex-Polo Grounders pulled their 1951 rally in reverse, and nails were chewed all along the Big Sur--until Larry Sherry...
...mannish-looking apparel: vests, West Point-styled jackets, wool poncho capes, hooded sweaters and jackets called "benchwarmers." New York's Peck & Peck said that sales from its mail-order back-to-school brochure are running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats, but there is also a fad for kilt skirts and shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela Kroll, buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue...
...Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...