Word: tans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your memories of summer are beginning to fade, at least you can make sure your tan doesn...
...three-day growth of beard and was still wearing the rumpled tan trousers he had on when arrested 13 days earlier. But Nicholas Daniloff was < ebullient, witty and still possessed of his reporter's instinct for summarizing a story. As the Cadillac carrying him from Moscow's Lefortovo Prison on Friday night stopped before cheering reporters gathered nearby, Daniloff, 51, popped out, threw his arms into the air and whooped with joy. Nonetheless he quickly observed, "I am not a free man today." Later, as he and his wife Ruth took up temporary residence at the U.S. embassy, Daniloff explained...
...horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel tan." An old-fashioned engine, maybe, but built for speed and just the thing to get country music back on the track...
When the door to the plane opens, however, silence falls over the crowd. About five people disembark before he steps through the doorway, sporting a double-breasted grey suit and a tan. As the crowd watches in quiet respect, he greets Governor Michael S. Dukakis and his other distinguished hosts. The Prince listens politely to the band perform and walks to the waiting crowd where he stops to chat with a few people. One girl can't stop smiling after she curtseys. Another woman acts casual while in conversation, but after is agog at what has just happened...
...prison can be hard on a man, and when Gotti finally appeared last week in Brooklyn Federal Court, the "Dapper Don" of the tabloids showed signs of fashion fatigue. No tie. No tan. His graying hair no longer meticulously styled. Only a starched white pocket handkerchief, practically a Gotti trademark, hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom...