Word: smocking
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...David R. Smock, director of the South African Education Program at IIE, said yesterday that so far 22 universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Cornell, have committed themselves to giving full scholarships for next year...
...timid. "I'm still not used to a lot of it. Dressing up in costumes, wearing funny hats, is too much for me right now. Maybe it won't be some day. I could do dentistry in a funny hat as well as I can in a smock if it makes some one happy." And brings him in the office door...
...Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint pen or a company button. From the president on down, nobody is too proud to wear the nondescript gray company smock or a lapel pin with the corporate emblem...
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...
...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...