Word: striped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cherub-faced Mike Haider is an oilman of a different stripe than his predecessor. Rathbone came up as a refinery man, was a tough administrator. "If you ask if I like to leave," he growled last week, "the answer is 'Hell, no.' " Softer-spoken North Dakotan Haider, a Stanford graduate ('27) in chemical engineering, is a research and exploration expert; among other Jersey jobs, he brought in Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 in Alberta, the find that started western Canada's oil boom in 1947. Despite their different backgrounds, Haider (whose salary will soon...
...over 100,000 dead, is one that everyone is sick of and no one knows how to stop. During the ceasefire, negotiations broke down because the republicans refused to give up the republic and the royalists refused to abandon the Imam. And al most all Yemenis, of whatever political stripe, want to be rid of Egyptian troops, who behave more like an army of occupation than an ally...
...Germans' great fear is that the world-particularly the U.S.-will forget about the tragedy of their sundered country. Politicians of every political stripe vie with one another in their clarion calls, and the message comes especially loud and clear in 1965, an election year...
...black, its interior walls are white and, by decree, unadorned with pictures. MCA executives are advised against wearing sport jackets and instructed never to remove their suit coats, most of which are black, like the boss's. Wasserman has often told unwary young employees that their color-stripe ties are handsome enough but not suitable to wear to the office. MCA people should be plain-color is for actors...
...believe," she said, busy knitting something white and inscrutable, "that all children are beautiful. Their skin, their eyes, their legs and arms and hair are what you should see first. Nothing must detract from them." Accordingly, Eiseman dresses generally come in solid colors or in a simple check or stripe. Trademarks of the line are special appliqued forms: sailboats, birds, daisies...