Word: robed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diana might have prompted yawns: she had chosen a dressing gown--bathrobe to most Yanks--made from turquoise, fuchsia and cobalt-blue silk faconne and worn over a formal dress. "Wearing it in public put the royal seal of approval on it," said delighted David Sassoon, who designed the robe for her after seeing the boudoir look in U.S. publications. Meanwhile, Charles and Diana accepted an invitation to visit Ronald and Nancy Reagan this fall. Even now, Washington socialites are probably ordering their own new bathrobes...
FICTION: Black Robe, Brian Moore...
Moore is an old pro, author of such surefooted novels as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and The Luck of Ginger Coffey. But in Black Robe he slips between James Fenimore Cooper and Graham Greene, between a visually rich adventure yarn and lip service paid to human frailty and divine mercy. Nearly four-fifths of the novel is spent on the trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just...
...money in high places, of cash siphoned from Hughes' Nevada gambling casinos and piped to politicians. Wielding the only power he knew, the deranged industrialist reveals a crude cynicism. On Lyndon Johnson: "I have done this kind of business with him before. So, he wears no awe-inspiring robe of virtue with me." On Hubert Humphrey: "A candidate who needs us and wants our help . . . somebody we control sufficiently." On Richard Nixon: "My man. He I know for sure knows the facts of life...
...limousine, quietly bade farewell to Vatican aides and boarded an Alitalia DC-10. Once again the Pope was airborne, setting forth this time on a strenuous twelve-day "pilgrimage of hope" to Latin America. Arriving at Caracas' Simon Bolivar Airport under a warm afternoon sun, the Pontiff, his white robe flapping in the soft Caribbean breezes, was greeted by Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi. Waving to the crowd, the Pope traveled in his converted Land Rover Popemobile along a twisting hillside road into the capital...