Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the day for the opening approaches, nerves grow tense in the studios. Assistants throw tantrums, models faint from exhaustion, Dior himself bursts into tears of emotion. On opening day, he takes refuge in the models' dressing room, a madhouse of half-clad models, hurrying dressers, seamstresses making last...
The guilty conscience of the governing elements, knowing themselves to be isolated from all popular support and in the midst of growing hostility, led them to suppress all attempts to express this sincere and general feeling. The order was given to put a quick end to the political manifestation springing...
Prime target of Carey's attack was the leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s biggest and most rambunctious affiliate- Dave Beck's scandal-tainted, 1,400,000 member Teamsters. Two weeks ago, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a study of labor racketeering, it called...
In the Hut. By now eight in all, the rescue party had to face a fearful decision: whether to try to drag or carry the half-dead boys up the slopes to the refuge hut or to save themselves by making the ascent alone. They chose to leave the boys...
Family Entertainment. Although professional nostalgics lamented the demolition of the old Roseland building as the end of an era, the dance hall had actually been changing its function for a long time. It started as a refuge for the "poor young clerks" Scott Fitzgerald wrote about; it evolved into a...