Word: poncho
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...appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their best sales to teen-age girls came in conservative, 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...
Suddenly the hillside came alive with scores of poncho-clad men, armed with guns and machetes, and charging silently toward the post. A dog barked. The sentry got off only one shot before an answering bullet caught him, but it was enough to rouse the garrison. Half-naked, the soldiers, boys of 20 or less, rushed to their battle stations and began to fire. All day long, in wave after wave, the attackers stormed the post. At nightfall, as the assailants grouped for a last charge, only the corporal, who was wounded in one leg, and a private were left...
...Calif., partially paralyzed and blind in one eye after a motor scooter accident last month. (Larsen's tennis colleagues announced last week that a Manhattan benefit tournament will be staged next month to help Larsen meet his $100-a-day medical bills.) Meanwhile, another tennistar, World Champion Pro Poncho Gonzales, 28, visiting in Australia, took his ailing right hand to a Sydney doctor, learned that he has a small tumor requiring immediate surgery that may end his career...
...proudest is New York's Presbyterian Hospital, where be spent a two year interneship after graduating from Columbia Medical School in 1916. Ferry also found time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head of a mule standing next to him, and stopped only when it hit a pack of cigarettes in a sergeant's pocket...
...vast extent of time-27 centuries ending with the Spanish conquest in 1534. It includes clay pots and statuettes of extraordinarily grotesque vigor, and others that are outstanding for their subtle realism. A hat and a wall-hanging made entirely of feathers brighten the display. There is a poncho with a checkerboard pattern, and many cloths so elaborately embroidered that the eye cannot be brought to unravel their designs. Rock crystal, jade, silver, ivory and turquoise jewelry conjure up court scenes of exotic splendor...