Word: rainproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presbyterian minister, Caldwell, 64, has toured the rural Southern states every summer for the past three years, visiting revival meetings and churches. Though "rural camp-meetings have been replaced by brick-walled auditoriums and revival tents by rainproof sheds," he writes, the raucous rhythms of lined-out hymns and "the resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says...
Take a working-class family living in a grimy, overcrowded urban slum. Move it to a spanking-clean, new garden city, cheerfully designed and well planned, where there are plenty of lawns, light and airy schools, spacious, rainproof shopping centers, no heavy traffic to menace the children. Would the family be happy in its new surroundings? The answer, as published last week in a report by Britain's Ministry of Housing: Not very...
...that is laminated to wool or worsted jersey as an interlining. Also among space-saving accessories: smashable turbans, many studded with creaseproof beads and fringe; wash-and-wear embroidered lingerie, fancier by far than Scarlett's; Italian nylon drip-dry raincoats, which actually may be more wrinkle than rainproof; tiny, collapsible umbrellas that look like pistols and shoot up almost as quickly...