Word: sash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swept into office by the biggest majority in modern Argentine history (apparently 304 electoral votes to 72), Presidentelect Juan Peron lost no time getting into action. Though he had still to take the oath and receive the sash of office, he bossed the Government that last week agreed to send some food to Europe (but little for UNRRA), released a blandly conciliatory denial of the U.S. State Department's Blue Book charges, and disavowed all desire of dominating its weaker neighbors...
...higher altitudes from Veracruz, where horsemen and fishing peasants, known as jarochos, have danced it for 400 years. To a jarocho, La Bamba is a studied love ritual of Spanish-Indian origin, in which the dancers start far apart and slowly move together by delicate footwork, tying a ribboned sash on the ground into a lover's knot with their feet. As they dance they sing their own improvised, often risqué and not always intelligible love lyrics...
Kyoto had an exhibit of fine embroidery. The prize went to an obi (sash) from the Nishijin textile cooperative. Its price...
Judging by the few who were brought down and captured, most of them knew just enough about flying to keep their crates straight and level, and had never before experienced flak. But it was with irreducible pride that they wore the red sash which dedicated each to death as a certainty and to the utmost destruction he might achieve by diving his explosive-packed plane into U.S. battlecraft...
...occasion were Prague's Mayor Vaclav Macek and a "Monsieur Mong" representing the mayor of Chungking. But France's most important guest was Sidi Lamine, Bey of Tunis. He arrived wearing fez, black tunic and red gold-striped trousers. Across his chest shimmered the red sash of the Legion of Honor...