Word: scarfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auspicious moment decreed by the astrologers, the King draped the royal five-colored scarf of Bhutan's Kings over his shoulders in the presence of the country's chief lama, the Jey Khempo. No other hands than theirs are ever allowed to touch the sacred silk. In an earlier ceremony, the King had already been given the Bhutanese crown, a silver-and-silk hat embroidered with three skulls and topped by the head of a raven, which is supposed to protect him from harm throughout his reign...
...years. In avuncular fashion, he even made the swinging scene, telling his fellow clergy to stop being scandalized by topless fashions. He himself shocked his brethren in the middle of an argument about church vestments by disclosing, "In some churches I wear no more than a black scarf." When last year one of his plans, to merge the 46 million-member Anglican community with 20 million Methodists, was defeated again, Ramsey came near to tears, then raised his hands above his head and quoted Godspell: "Long live...
...good manners, honor and duty, some stern dictums from his parents ("Thank God every day for what you've been given . . . don't feel sorry for yourself . . . admit your mistakes, you'll only get back what you give"), and something else. Head down in his wool scarf, puffing steam in the cold, he recalled what he saw in the first months in Nixon's White House, when the seeds of today's disaster were sown. "All those people were running around with their vulnerable egos, more interested in their power than in governing," he said...
Should he turn down that postion Arrow might decide to leave Harvard for Yale where he would join another leader in the field of mathematical economics, Herbert E. Scarf. According to one source, the combination of these old friends would give Yale the edge in that area...
Clad in two sweaters, a woolen coat and a flamboyantly flowing scarf, Mrs. Mary Kearns was making her customary grand entrance on New York City's Great White Way. Dreamily murmuring about the Queen of England and other famous folks whom she had never known, she settled her diminutive form on one of the concrete flower boxes on an island in the middle of Times Square. Oblivious to the shouts and screeches of one of the world's busiest intersections, she did not notice the gang of young toughs approaching her. Then one of the gang shoved...