Word: tieless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down from the wall of Singapore's town hall came the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Next day, shirtsleeved and Next day, shirtsleeved and tieless, Lee Kuan Yew, chief of the left-of-center People's Action Party that had just captured 43 of 51 Assembly seats, took the oath of allegiance as the Queen's first Prime Minister of the autonomous State of Singapore...
Gallused, collarless and tieless, his straw boater firmly planted on his head, brush-mustached Chris Smith spent a lot of time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...
...debaters in Room 222 of the parish house of Minneapolis' Central Lutheran Church sent out for sandwiches. At 8:30 a rumpled young minister emerged to empty a piled-high wastebasket. At 9 130 another minister came out in his stocking feet, tieless and bleary-eyed. "They are still quibbling over two words," he said. Twenty-five minutes later the door opened again and the U.S.'s No. i Protestant churchman stood there, his 6-ft., 1½-in. frame a little more stooped than usual and his face a little paler...
...also said the show would sue the A.A.U. if Calhoun lost his standing. Meanwhile, in a barnlike studio in the RCA Building, under a ceiling blanketed with klieg lights. Calhoun and his bride defied the A.A.U., as Floor Manager Mike Graham threw the cues. The congregation included about 25 tieless stagehands, a bewildered assortment of curiosity seekers, and 3,000,000 enraptured housewives. To the best man, the M.C. muttered: "Nervous or not, you have one grave responsibility. Here are two beautiful Keepsake wedding rings...
Then came the trial's most surprising performance. Down from Washington to testify in McKeon's behalf came General Randolph McCall Pate, commandant of the Marine Corps and the man who approved the court-martial and, in April, angrily called McKeon's action "deplorable." Tieless and affable, Marine Pate first went out of his way to shake McKeon's hand and murmur "Good luck to you, my boy," before he took the witness stand. If it were up to him, he said haplessly, in answer to "Zuke" Berman's hypothetical question, his only punishment...