Word: robing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk's fine novel of the Navy's war in the Pacific, has turned out to be the hardiest fiction bestseller since Lloyd Douglas' The Robe (1942). The Douglas novel stayed on the Publisher's Weekly list of five top fiction sellers for 32 months. Caine is now in its 17th month. It's sales to date: 325,000 copies (The Robe sold nearly...
...July, representatives of the U.S. and France faced each other in the big, ornate Peace Palace at The Hague before the 15 black-robed, white-bibbed judges of the International Court of Justice. In a crimson robe decked with ermine, Professor André Gros argued for France that the treaty was an archaic document under which the U.S. was trying to build a "quasi-protectorate" of its own in Morocco. The American businessmen in Morocco, Lawyer Gros said, were engaged in privileged import and money-exchange activities "based on fraud," and could not be checked by local laws...
Most of Sam's family were "abandoned Presbyterians," and so church was also available as a place for mischief. Once Sam and a friend were almost caught playing euchre in the parish house. In desperation they stuffed the pack into the sleeves of the preacher's "baptising robe." Next time the preacher was immersing converts, the cards slid out of his sleeve one by one, and floated serenely down the river, "the first cards being a couple of bowers and three aces." Caught and flogged, Sam (or maybe it was the friend) sobbed through his tears...
...last week a bearded Korean elder, dignified and prim in starched white robe and black horsehair hat, picked his way along a reeking, raucous, filth-strewn alley in Pusan. He ignored the ragged, swarming children and the whining beggar women, who envied the succulent prize which the old man had in his hand. It was the gamy carcass of an alley cat and it was headed for the cooking...
...There is one respect," Crockford's conceded, "in which none could suggest that bishops nowadays fail to adorn their office. We refer to robes and external decorations . . . Long-traditional practice and restraint have been largely displaced by sartorial idiosyncrasy. Of copes and mitres we speak no evil, but we think parading in a scarlet robe . . . is ridiculous, if not worse...