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Word: tableclothes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colorful native costumes, bending over simple textbooks in an outdoor classroom. A third picture shows an Oriental girl, her jet black hair cropped to look like an overturned bowl, gazing suspiciously at a glass of milk and a piece of bread placed before her on a gay print tablecloth. The fourth picture is of two tiny children. Their hands are gripping a wooden railing of some sort, and their eyes are open wide, fascinated by something to the right, outside the picture...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS | Title: A Tour Through the Peace Corps | 8/10/1961 | See Source »

...straining to break the 15% limit and in many cases has crashed through, leaving a sense of poignant nostalgia for the days when Emily Post was advising such favored characters as Jim Clerking, Sally Hiborn and Mrs. Kindhart that one never tips "less than 25^ in a restaurant with tablecloth on table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Outstretched Palm | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...that sounds part Latino, part Arab. When the song is played at Geneva's tonier-than-thou Chez Maxim's, aging bankers and their young girl friends go into curious convulsions on the dance floor; at least one U.N. functionary has been known to snatch up a tablecloth, wrap it around his waist and do a belly dance. In Paris the tune tumbles endlessly from Left Bank students' rooms; chefs abandon soufflés to hear it. From Stockholm to Sorrento, Bandleader Bob Azzam's Mustapha has spread like a rampaging fungus, is the biggest European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Most Happy Fellah | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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