Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because for weeks his picture had been gazing out over me from hundreds of Soviet walls, and in these tinted official photographs, two or three times lifesize, his features are planed off and hardened. He was wearing a well-cut suit, dark blue verging on black, a soft white shirt with French cuffs, and a light grey tie. He placed the young interpreter from the Foreign Ministry at the head of the long, green baize conference table, and himself took a seat at the side, his back to the windows that look out across an interior courtyard to an expanse...
...that were not consolation enough, Pierre was summoned by Quitte ou Double Listener René Billères, Minister of National Education. Pierre showed up straight from his welding classes, a scarf and lumberjacket hiding his work shirt. The minister proposed a scheme to circumvent his own system, suggested that Pierre work with two specially assigned teachers to prepare for college entrance and practical lab work. Said Minister Billères: "You are free to accept or not." Chemistry Whiz Pierre needed no time for qualitative or quantitative analysis. "I accept," said he. "This will allow me to catch...
...blob of finger paint all over a sheet of paper. And, without half trying, can spatially extend it over his body, his tee shirt, his shoes, dungarees and, unless restrained...
...only $20 for merely riding a race (this is pushed up to $50 for winning, $35 for second place and $25 for third), he also usually gets 10% of any purse his mount wins. After several 10% cuts, Hartack called his father and said: "Well, Dad, pack up your shirt. I'm taking you out of the mines. I just bought a farm near Charles Town and you're gonna...
...combat veteran (Army, Purple Heart, Croix de guerre) who afterwards took to politics. In 1950 and 1952 he won election to the Massachusetts house, resigned in 1953 to be Vice President Nixon's administrative aide in Washington, later served as general counsel for Nixon's G.O.P. hair shirt, Harold E. Stassen. In 1956 Herter ran successfully for the State Executive Council...