Word: shirtful
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...frequent. According to an informant close to several insurgent groups and a U.S. official familiar with rebel operations, small and nondescript fighters like Marwan are considered ideal bombers, since they can slip into crowds without attracting attention. He came to the meeting with TIME wearing a black short-sleeved shirt hanging over black trousers--a style favored by many Shi'ite Muslims--to blend in with the majority of Iraq's population...
...grim effort to track down the killers, and President Johnson at week's end told a press conference that "substantive results can be expected in a very short time." Near the grave, FBI men sifted every inch of dirt, hunting for such evidence as cigarette butts and shirt buttons, and sent several 20-gallon cans containing scraps and other possible evidence to the Bureau's Washington laboratory for analysis...
...October might be "a bridge too far for him" in terms of work load. Indeed, Burr often rises as early as 5:30 a.m. and begins work in the study of his white clapboard home in Bernardsville, N.J. There he toils all day Mondays, usually wearing a flannel shirt, baggy jeans and deck shoes. During the rest of the week he dons a business suit and drives 40 minutes to the airport in his metallic-gray...
...better than his contemporaries, and he applied them where they most belonged--to the recording of immediate experience. A painting like Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903, has a sparkling directness hardly attainable in oil. It is so simple looking--blue sea, white boat, a patch or two of red shirt, the red picked up again at the boat's waterline and in a jaunty lick or two of carmine reflection--that at first one does not mark the skill that went into it, the power of epigrammatic observation implicit in Homer's ability to convey the milky blue water over...
...services of one of its foremost emissaries, Miss Iceland, who is also the reigning Miss World. Holmfridur Karlsdottir, a blue-eyed nursery-school teacher, was called back from a trip to Singapore to dress up Reykjavík by traipsing around wearing a Reagan-and-Gorbachev-in-Iceland T shirt. "It's fabulous for Iceland!" she exclaimed. "It's the best publicity we could ever get." She was the soul of congeniality, but she adamantly refused to pose in a swimsuit. Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson, on the other hand, showed no such reluctance. Hermannsson, who often takes a midday...