Word: striped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, Peruvians of every political stripe clamored for action against the I.P.C. contract as a living insult to their national dignity. In last June's national elections every major-and minor-party denounced the oil company. The army had already called the agreement "injurious to national sovereignty." Major newspapers were against I.P.C.-even La Prensa, Lima's prestigious daily owned by former Premier Pedro Beltrán, who is probably the best friend U.S. businessmen ever had in Peru. The end of I.P.C.'s privileged position, said La Prensa, was "an aspiration of all Peruvians...
This full-dress regalia was first popularized in the 1890s by Prince Albert. It is dominated by a double-breasted frock coat but must also include a white pique shirt with a wing collar, a white pique waistcoat, black trousers with a satin stripe, black patent leather shoes, and a silk top hat. The hat may be stored neatly by collapsing it into a frisbee-like disk...
...summer, of course, the coat of the tuxedo is white allowing for colored ties and cumberbunds. On formal occasions there is a satin stripe on the trousers which the cummberbund must match...
...stood proudly at the plate in his pin-stripe New York Yankee uniform, listening to the roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...
...waiting for his army commission. It was a time, he recalls, when women gave white feathers to men not in uniform and every schoolboy dreamed of going to France and getting a mild "blighty"-a wound that would send him back to England uncrippled but with a gold stripe on his sleeve. Loom of Youth told only what all but the most naive schoolmasters already knew-that homosexuality was not uncommon in a system that "herded together monastically children of thirteen and men of eighteen for two-thirds of the year." Nevertheless, it shocked the sensibilities of a nation brought...