Word: styling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along Britain's Kentish coast. The 80-foot, dragon-prowed Viking-style Hugin* was beached, and from it poured 53 warriors with knives between their teeth and spears in their hands. Several of the invaders wore horn-rimmed spectacles under their horned helmets; all had month-old beards. None of the 50,000 waiting Britons ran away...
...scores of other contests came off in style. The Big Balloon, an undersized young hawker in the piazza of San Cosimato, won 20,000 lira (about $35) for his exceptional fruit stand, which boasted 15 varieties of fruit and a trimming of laurel and myrtle leaves. Grazie Ceci, who is 90 years old and who shares three rooms in Bologna alley with 22 relatives and acquaintances, won a 1,000 lira prize as the oldest grandmother, announced she would spend a good part of it on wine...
...East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...
...whose sense of morality is easily outraged, Father McCarthy promptly declared war on the mores of the Los Angeles area, later waged personal feuds with Columnists Drew Pearson ("Vicious slander and irresponsible smearing") and Louella Parsons ("Cheap, meretricious twaddle"). He also hired some topnotch reporters and sharpened the style. ("Get rid of stodgy stories," he ordered. "The essence of journalism is sensation on the wing.") The Tidings' circulation rose...
Running a fast eye over the Western Reserve's 150-year history, Author Hatcher traces its mushrooming from a scattering of lonely, mud-bogged farms and white, New England-style towns into today's mill-studded industrial area. There is a sharp parallel between Cleaveland's early settlers and the impoverished mid-igth Century immigrants from Europe who also got a new hold on life in Ohio...