Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor space, houses a 350-seat theater, staff offices, closed-circuit TV system and studio, barbershop, beauty shop, radio studio, tailor shop, newspaper office, bank, post office, 17-bed hospital, twelve-man jail, four-lane bowling alley...
...curriculum is tailor-made to the problems of Central America." Smith said, "although it is not strictly confined to them." Instruction will be given by means of informal discussion, mainly of cases written by members of a research team that spent the summer in the region under the direction of Lodge and Thomas C. Raymond, professor of Business Administration...
...Jean-Louis Barrault as the count, but soon he was saying to Barrault: "I don't know whether it's your fault or mine, but I'm bored." His humility may come from the memory of his own beginning years. The son of a poor Protestant tailor from Bordeaux, Anouilh got a job as secretary to Director Louis Jou-vet at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees. He earnestly began writing plays, but whenever the great Jouvet saw Anouilh, he would say: "Here comes our failure...
Orders from Paul. Why did the session slow down? One reason seems to be the overconfidence of the progressive majority's leaders, who did not marshal their forces effectively in the debates. Another factor was council procedure, which proved tailor-made for inaction. Although four cardinal moderators were given executive mandate by Pope Paul, they soon found that they had little operable authority over the twelve council presidents or the six-man secretariat of the council. And in much the way that a committee chairman can bottle up a bill in the U.S. Congress, the Curia men in charge...
...himself dresses humbly, because a good tailor knows his place. He wears black silk-tweed jackets with silver buttons, and black mohair jeans with white double-stitched frontier pockets. He has always resisted his impulse to drive a $40,000 automobile. He scrapes around in a Lincoln Continental instead, and lives in an unostentatious $250,000 house...