Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johns, riding his campaign road grader hard, pledged a good part of the state's entire road funds to a single Jacksonville highway. Wearing a made-to-order train conductor's uniform, he whooped it up with his "wool-hat boys," sneered at the "silk stockings." He even made an issue of foreign aid ("I think the money should be spent in America, for Americans, and particularly for the old folks"). His demagoguery seemed like a surefire success until last week's voting...
...hospital, amid the stench of death, antiseptics and rotting wounds, Nurse de Galard lost 18 Ibs. in work and worry, She cut her hair very short; she switched at last to green fatigues, changing sometimes to a paratrooper's trousers and shirt. She had her own dugout with silk sheets, made from parachutes by one of General de Castries' orderlies, but more often she would sleep on a cot beside the wounded. Often, during the bitter days, she would take the last messages of the dying. "I am glad I am trapped," she once told...
Normalcy and fear. The danger to Hanoi was scarcely visible. The streets were still chockablock with cyclos (cycle taxis, 14? a ride). Shrimp and snail vendors crouched behind their tiny stalls clacking metal scissors-the noisy symbol of their trade. Almond-skinned girls in straw hats and pajamalike silk costumes strolled hand-in-hand to school, and at midnight there was the customary flood of drunken soldiers and giggling tarts as the taxi-dance joints closed down...
...Russian glide," one critic called it); in another, they did a stomping Cossack dance that shook the floor boards. They formed a troika (with three girls acting as horses), chains, arrows and everything but the hammer & sickle. Most impressive was a number in which 16 girls dressed in silk-embroidered costumes executed parade-ground drills with a precision to rival the Rockettes. There was also a complicated swan dance with each girl holding up a hand to resemble a swan's head, on each hand a ring resembling the eye of a swan...
...involved in the parties. Soon 100 suspects, among them 59 company heads and directors and five Diet members, ended up in Tokyo's Kosuge prison accused of either giving or taking bribes. Streets outside Kosuge were filled with secretaries and geishas bearing gifts of chocolates, bean-paste cakes, silk pillows and $60 cashmere underwear for the prisoners...