Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been left to Paris, however, to provide the ultimate example of the fashionable sweater fad. At a recent fashion showing, gaping onlookers were spellbound as a young French p.r. girl in the audience peeled during the course of the show. First to be shed was a navy blue cardigan. Then a sleeveless, striped blue pullover fluttered down, followed by a long-sleeved sweater. Au fond was a sleeveless, almost backless silky knit navy turtleneck -a dazzling outfit clearly designed for energetic dancing at top chic nightclubs as the evening wears...
...three hundred years the Vietnamese enjoyed relatively secure boundaries. Three hundred years later the Vietnamese were forced to take up arms against an invading Mongolian army led by Kubla Khan. Again, the cost was high. But a united front of landowners, merchants, artisans, and peasants did not hesitate to shed blood--their own and that of the invading troops--in an effort to preserve Vietnam's territorial independence...
...economists will take. W. James Adams '69, tutor of economics in Mather House, said yesterday, 'There will probably be a strange reversal of roles with Houthakker attacking Nixon's policies while Duesenberry defends them. I expect that Houthakker, who recently left the Administration, will be able to shed new light on what Phase Two really means...
...must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like...
Still striving to shed their obsolete image of aloofness, bankers have adopted an air of determined bonhomie while courting customers with a full array of services, gifts and favorable interest rates. For bringing a warm touch to cold cash, not many can match Coolidge Bank & Trust Co. of Watertown, Mass., a Boston suburb.* Started by a group of local businessmen in an abandoned store a little more than a decade ago. Coolidge now has nine branches and $100 million in assets, which puts it among the top 500 of the nation's 14,000 commercial banks...