Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vital Black. The movement began in 1930 when W.D. Fard, an itinerant silk peddler, founded a novel version of Islam that attracted thousands of poor Detroit blacks. After Fard disappeared mysteriously in 1934, leadership passed to Muhammad, who had been born Elijah Poole, the son of a Georgia sharecropper-preacher. When dispute erupted over the succession, Muhammad moved his base to Chicago and gradually built the Nation of Islam into a vital black separatist faith...
Even so, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns has criticized the deal. He believes that for a Middle Eastern country to rescue the U.S. flagship line is a grave blow to America's political prestige. Last week Burns told New York Times Columnist Leonard Silk that the U.S. Government should have persuaded six or so oil companies to put up $50 million each to bail out the airline. Pan Am Chairman William Seawell failed in earlier attempts to get help from the U.S. Government; his plea last September for a $10.1 million monthly subsidy fell on deaf ears...
...have meant as much to Pepys as his carefully acquired prints. And nothing seemed to have meant more to this tailor's son on the make than his sumptuous wardrobe - at a time when 36 bushels of coal cost ?3 he spent up to ?55 a month on silk suits and cloaks with gold buttons...
...they are printed on floating veils of silk, chiffon, muslin and taffeta, one positioned over another...
DeNiro grew up on the streets of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. His parents, both artists, were separated when he was two. At ten, he briefly attended Saturday acting classes at New York's New School but soon turned to "hanging around" in flashy silk suits...