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Word: smocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later that day, accompanied by her husband Denis, Thatcher visited a Cadbury chocolate factory, donning a white smock over her elegant suit. She spent several minutes cramming brightly wrapped chocolate eggs into yellow boxes. "How many to the box?" she asked over the roar of the machinery. "Forty-eight," was the answer. "Can I do it?" she asked at once, and promptly sat down to pack two boxes. She lamely tried to stuff chocolates into trays that glided slowly past her on a conveyor belt, but found the job difficult. "It takes concentration, doesn't it?" she said with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Iron Lady vs. Sunny Jim | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Hillenbrand over dinner at Chicago's Bismarck Hotel. In blue jeans and a baggy smock, without her stage makeup and wigs, she bore little resemblance to the ethereal Giselle or the wide-eyed Clara of The Nutcracker. Hillenbrand had watched her perform on a recent evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 1, 1978 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

PROVDIENCE, R.I.--While figuring out how much change he owed a customer who had forked over $5 for a $1.97 purchase, the smock-clad counterman at The Butcher Shop on Elmgrove Street suddenly stopped and declared to a partisan Harvard audience here Saturday afternoon, "I've just got this feeling Brown's gonna lose...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Some Kind O' Evil Bruin in Providence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...Smock said he is an ex-professor of History at Wisconsin State University. Mark Orewiler, an associate disciple of Christ, said yesterday that since Smock found God in a commune in North Africa, the ex-professor has been spreading the gospel on college campuses...

Author: By Nancy Lubin, | Title: Yard Proselytizing | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

Orewiler said Smock plans to go to Columbia University on Friday...

Author: By Nancy Lubin, | Title: Yard Proselytizing | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

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