Word: powders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weeksbefore the Negro ghetto of los Angeles erupted in violence, intense debate over how to handle such racial powder kegs was under way deep inside the Johnson administration...
Today, sporting a powder-blue tuxedo, monogrammed shirt cuffs, alligator shoes and a diamond ring on his pinkie, Rawls is savoring the sweet life to the utmost. After all, he said last week as he looked back on his grubbing chitlin days, "I paid my dues...
...sickly, cranky and exceedingly homely child. Never in her life, in fact, did anyone suggest that she was beautiful. Her hair was a reddish-blonde mop, fuzzy and unruly, her nose overlong, her face hollow-cheeked and colorless, and she always emphasized her pallor by slathering on white powder. In an era when the feminine ideal was a dimpled and cushiony Venus, she was skinny as a slat. "An empty carriage pulled up at the stage door and Sarah Bernhardt got out," said one wit. A columnist declared that "she never needed an umbrella-she was thin enough to walk...
...Cuban Stallion. The nature of après-ski activity varies. With its deep and demanding powder and precipitous runs, Alta draws only serious skiers, and the night life is consequently restrained...
...many criminals have been taking a powder from British jails these days (399 this year) that two months ago, when Soviet Spy George Blake sawed his way out of Wormwood Scrubbs in London, the issue of prison security welled up into a national scandal that acutely embarrassed the Labor government. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins reacted by naming the eminent Earl Mountbatten to head a committee of inquiry. In turn, the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty pledged his word that "We will be out working all the time, not sitting on our backsides...