Word: robed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backyard barbecues, Jayne Mansfield's Chihuahua, Popsicle, modeled a chef's outfit complete with a cap stenciled "Hot Dog"; for resort beach wear, Model Jane Waiting's dachshund took a few turns around the floor with a black lace bikini bottom and a purple beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed...
...tallest: a 175-ft.-high statue hewn from a sandstone cliff in the Afghan valley of Bamian-a display of gigantism inherited more from the colossal marble Caesars of Rome than from the subtler Orient. It was also in this Eurasian melting pot that Buddha acquired his characteristic togalike robe, borrowed from Rome. Likewise Hercules (opposite) holds the hero's traditional club, but his head is crowned with Serapis' sacred basket of mysteries, symbolizing the Nile's fertility...
...magic town. It was said that the King, after the gates were locked at night, slept with the keys under his pillow. And Hans Christian was sure that if one knocked on the castle door, his majesty would open it himself, in slippers and crown and any old robe...
Cassius would lean back in his folding chair, loosen his terry cloth robe, and case a vanilla smile across his chocolate face. "Little Phil, when I'm growed up, you'll know what I done...
Arrayed in gold pajamas and a brown silk robe, the nation's most closely watched convalescent leaned back in a green reclining chair and made a rare admission. "Very frankly," said Lyndon Johnson, "this is a good time to get a little rest. I have been rather tired for some time...