Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just for a moment. "Stay there," he says as he goes over to a shelf. "We just got these in." He comes back holding a pair of furry pants. "Yetti pants," he explains. "Yetti is another word for the Abominable Snowman." I stroked the pants. "Just like a rug," he grins. Groovy...
...plotters, the opportunity to pull the rug out from under Erhard came in late October, when he tried to persuade the Free Democrat members of his coalition Cabinet to go along with the tax increase required to balance next year's budget. In the end, stung by accounts that they were caving in to Erhard, the Free Democrats chose to save face by quitting the Cabinet and taking their 49 seats in the Bundestag along with them. Erhard was thus left with West Germany's first minority government. His position was untenable; but who would succeed...
...watch the telly or drifted into one another's open cells for an hour and a half of convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soirées, teaching a bit of Russian or Arabic to his fellow inmates, discussing world affairs, or philosophizing on the art of espionage. On that rainy night, the soir...
...Borrowing against his hocus hopes, he picks up a fastback Mustang, a sackful of custom-tailored suits, a foxy set of fox furs for his fat-kneed wife. And when the insurance lawyers are ready to bargain, Willie makes them sit on wastebaskets and haggle like rug peddlers till in collapse they agree to pay his client...
...Sarah Lawrence girl is turning into a wonderful rug merchant. After she married Sikkim's King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the former Hope Cooke winced at the garish mats that some of the Sikkimese weavers were making with aniline dyes, decided that they must go back to traditional vegetable dyes to give their ancient dragon patterns a softer tint. The King had helped to establish a handicrafts training center in his tiny Himalayan kingdom, and flew to New York with his queen in time to watch the first shipment of rugs go on sale (prices: up to $500). But Sikkim...