Word: saris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gadis, His Excellency Syed Amjad Ali, the Pakistani ambassador, sat in cross-legged splendor. He was dressed in gaudy sport clothes and a dark ten-gallon hat. A red and green silk beach umbrella shaded the ambassador from the direct touch of the cruel sun, and a swarm of sari-clad women from his household kept him and his guests plentifully supplied with cooling drinks...
...performed in the large, well-kept Rajasthan capital of Jaipur (pop. 175,000). One day last week Shroff Ballabhdas, a prosperous banker and coin appraiser of Jaipur, died. His fair and dainty widow Chhimi, 35, mother of five children, put on her many jewels, donned her finest mauve silk sari and announced that she would throw herself on her husband's pyre...
Last week sari-clad Shakuntala, now 20, gave a demonstration in Washington before a party of reporters and mathematics professors. She had become a master of the arm-long number. Without error or hesitation she extracted fourth, fifth and sixth roots of numbers up to ten digits. (Her record to date: extracting the 20th root of a 42 -digit number and multiplying figures that yielded a 39-digit result.) Without hesitation, she worked out "magic squares" (horizontal, vertical and diagonal sums are identical), starting with random numbers suggested by the audience...
With her old friend Drucie Snyder Horton, daughter of the Treasury Secretary, and an escort of six Secret Service guards, Margaret Truman arrived in Malibu, Calif, for a two-week beach holiday and some personal appearances. For the radio, she chose the operetta Sari, in which she played the daughter of a gypsy fiddler; for television, she started rehearsing as the friendly foil of Comic Jimmy Durante...
...Madrid's Arriba, Critic d'Ors led off for the conservatives: "How can we conceive of Jesus disguised as a sannyasi floating on a lotus lily, symbolizing renunciation of the world He came to save?...or the Conception as an almond-eyed beauty scantily clad in a sari?...The Church universally is based on unity of language, prayer and iconography...