Word: silken
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...assurance (though we may look to it with dread). But we can point to the trend. In general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future may hold...
...served with Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood against Spain in 1898 and later became Cuba's Secretary of War and Interior, sent him to Annapolis. The Academy's first Cuban student, he graduated 126th among 467 in the class of 1920, and was more noted for his "silken line" with debutantes than for marlinespike seamanship...
...evening, a 47-year-old, silken-mouthed Syrian politician named Marouf Dawalibi announced that he had formed a cabinet, Syria's first in three weeks. Dawalibi, a bearded law professor with a French wife, is a man of accumulated hates. He is anti-British, anti-Israeli, anti-American. He once said that "the Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet republic rather than a prey to world Jewry...
...inside the Kaesong neutral zone. Two men had been wounded and one was finished off by "shots at the forehead." Alan Winnington, Communist correspondent of the London Daily Worker, invited three U.N. reporters and a U.N. officer to attend the dead hero's funeral. There were wreaths and silken banners, speeches and accordion music-but no casket. North Korea's Nam II was there, impassively smoking...
...live the Emperor!" from crowds of Frenchmen and the Austrians who had traveled to France especially for the great occasion. "Long live the Republic!" shouted French students gathered near by, and a handful of eggs hurtled toward the royal company. One egg crashed and broke on Regina's silken train; Regina stared proudly ahead as the page girls brushed the mess away. The crowd kept right on cheering...