Word: sash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another abridgement of a scene from the Innocents Abroad--titled in Holbrook's program. "I Took Along the Window Sash"--unfortunately left out many of the finely drawn reactions of a boy who discovers a corpse in the room in which he is sleeping...
...slept on corn-husk mattresses, fought malaria and fleas. But life was brightened by their robes (all of Rome's foreign seminarians wear robes with national markings). The Irish-Americans who helped found the college considered green, but the final choice was black cassocks with red buttons and sash and blue facings which, together with a white Roman collar, added up to the U.S. colors (the first class even had a brass star on each shoe strap...
...from his labors, Tomikichi died, and wid01wed Toyono moved with her son into a little house in Hirokawa. Last weekend Toyono slipped away from a small party her son was giving, politely pulled the paper-screen door of her closet shut, and hanged herself with the blue-and-white sash of her Kurume-gasuri kimono...
...oasis town of Ouargla, he briskly inspected a 2O-acre terminal servicing the 25-ton trucks that haul pipe to the huge (500 million tons) oil strike at Hassi Messaoud. He checked over plans for a loo-room, air-conditioned hotel, invested the new mayor with a tricolor sash. As he went through these ceremonies, he was not only the minister in charge of two new French dèpartements (states) that together are three times the size of Texas. He was also the man most responsible for making France's "Saharan dream" come true. "It is here...
Venezuela's problems officially become President Romulo Betancourt's problems this week. Before a skeleton crew of delegates from overseas-held down at the economy-minded President-elect's own request, he will get into the ceremonial sash and inherit the headaches left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez...