Word: tunic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dressed in a traditional white shawl, tunic and pants, the prime minister said she came to Washington to begin "discussions of a new relationship" as both nations work to meet the "new challenges [that] confront us in the closing but complex phase of the Afghan...
...make many demands upon you that you may initially consider too much." Forbidden was all nonschool material, including books, magazines, newspapers, TV and radio. The course, Galitz said, was aimed at encouraging concentration and deep thought. Each student pinned two rows of "ribbons of challenge" on the white tunic worn during the course, a ribbon to be shed only when a crucial test had been passed.When all the ribbons were gone, a student graduated...
...just a small part, springs into New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a vitality and dignity well beyond that of most exhibitions of clothing. All is ravishment: a child's coat made of silver fabric embroidered with gold thread; a woman's costume of veil, tunic and pajamas that plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana Vreeland, who in her years...
...came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later reported "HOBEY" BAKER, STAR OF GRIDIRON, IS NOW AN AMERICAN "ACE," no one was surprised. The astonishment came in France about a month after the shooting had ended. Baker, his orders home tucked in his tunic, took a repaired Spad up for a test flight. It crashed, and "the finest damn flier in the air," as his fellow aviators called him, entered the record books for the final time: the last man in his squadron to be killed...
...central character in both works is a thin, ascetic prophet known only as the Counselor. He walks clad only in a purple tunic, through the arid hills of the Sertao region promising salvation from the destruction which, he says, the lord will visit upon the wicked at the end of the century. When his band of followers becomes too numerous to wander the scrublands, he takes them to a hidden valley, Canudos, where they await the end of the world around them. But before the new century dawns, the zealots of Canudos draw the attention of the Brazilian government, which...