Word: rugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulganin. Wistful and out of place in his distinctly subordinate role, goateed Nikolai Bulganin looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, who followed him from the plane, was dark and sour, an Armenian rug merchant unsure of his sucker. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, pale and drawn, stayed behind...
...marshmallows for toasting; and the candle-bearing novice who set fire to the veil of another novice in the procession for Compline, the last office of the convent day. "There was plenty of action," recalled the Novice Mistress with a hearty laugh. One young sister, thinking to wrap a rug around the victim, tried to pull the only rug handy out from under the flaming novice, while another snatched off the veil and stamped on it. "The fire," said the Novice Mistress, "went out, and so did the novice-without her veil...
...meeting on juvenile delinquency, Vice Principal Meyer Berkowitz of Philadelphia's Samuel S. Fels Junior High School gave one reason for current misbehavior: "When I was young, we used to roll up the rug and dance. It's tougher now for the youngsters because of wall-to-wall carpeting and parents watching television...
...last count, tufting machines were busily turning out rugs in 150 mills through out the U.S., accounting for 29% of the rug market...
Some of the rugmakers are even experimenting with Orion and Dacron as rug fabrics. One of the newest: Masland's Saranette line ($11 a sq. yd.) made from Dow Chemical's Saran, which is softer than nylon and has the advantage of being almost impervious to ordinary stains...