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Word: suit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eating. There were plates of hors d'oeuvres--mostly pork and shrimp--and drinks. Overhead were four painted lantern-covered light fixtures. On one wall was a mural of ethnic Chinese in native costume. Chairman Mao stood in the middle, fleshy and pink-faced in a gray collarless suit. Significantly, he towered over everyone else in the mural...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: A New China For the New Year | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

...Chinese delegation, save the waiters who sported white tops and used cardboard Coca-cola boxes instead of trays, wore the same sort of suit that Mao was dressed in, with various shades of dark gray. The women wore similar gray pants with short, colored, brocade tops. They posed an interesting contrast to the other women in the room--overseas Chinese and Americans. Some of the female guests wore brightly colored satin while other donned Chinese jade; none was in pants...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: A New China For the New Year | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

...they certainly couldn't have looked any happier. Deputy Liaison Chief Han Hsu beamed as he shook hands in the reception line while the proudest-looking man had to be Liaison Chief Chai. He looked especially pleased when someone pointed to one of the three buttons pinned to his suit. In Coca-Cola script it read "things go better with science...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: A New China For the New Year | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

Belli is old now; his hands and face are covered with age spots. But he continues to be King of Torts. We met at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York for breakfast. Belli was typically attired in a Savile Row suit and accompanied by a stunning platinum blonde. The following is our conversation...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Casus Belli | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

Goldwater has field suit in federal court to prevent President Carter from ter- minating the U.S.-Taiwan Mutual Defense Treaty...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Teng to Invite Sen. Goldwater | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

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