Word: sweater
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begin with, instead of smiling at people while strolling through the Yard, I began to walk briskly with eyes averted--just like everyone else. I scrambled against traffic in the Square--just like everyone else. I learned how to meticulously drape a sweater around my neck in the fall and when winter set in, I discovered that I could don my woolen hat, scarf and mittens without feeling like I was dressing up for Halloween. After all, who needs mittens in Southern California unless you're skiing on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain...
Pamplona's hotels had been reserved far in advance, so that I had little choice but to join the crowd sleeping in the park located next to the bullring. I unrolled my sleeping bag and arranged my sweater into a makeshift pillow. I took off my pants, which contained my wallet, passport, traveller's checks, and train pass, and put them into my knapsack, which I placed a half-foot from my head. The wine had made my head heavy, and I was out like a light. Around 4:30 a.m. I awoke with a start and, after, shaking...
...Aunt Yvonne," was something of a bluenose who strove to keep French newsstands free of "sexy" magazines. By contrast, Claude Pompidou, 62, gave chic parties for le tout Paris and dressed in the latest fashions. Mme. Giscard has little interest in clothes. During the campaign, she wore the same sweater-over-blouse combination so often that it started to look like a uniform...
...Madam Forelady, has the jury reached its verdict?" asked the clerk. It had, replied Sybil Kucharski, dressed in blue jeans and a gray turtleneck sweater. In a firm, assured voice, she answered "Not guilty" eighteen times as the counts, first against Mitchell, then against onetime Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, were read. When the litany exonerating Mitchell was completed, one of his defense attorneys let out a small whoop of joy and tried to embrace his client; the undemonstrative Mitchell shook him off. "You've got the jury system and it always works," he said calmly afterwards. Stans was less...
...book. But Morris' circumstances were rather special. For one thing, the other woman was Morris himself. After undergoing a transsexual operation in Casablanca to shed his manhood and the name James, Morris now lives in Bath, England, under the name Jan Morris, happily experimenting with lipstick, twin sweater sets and pearls...