Word: vested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After five weeks of plying the Ozarks' chicken-fry circuit in the same $3 drip-dry sports shirt and rumpled slacks, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee donned a dark suit, striped tie, and vest and headed back to Washington. With 53% of the vote against a field of three opponents, J. William Fulbright had handily won renomination. Chewing laconically on a stick of Spearmint, he allowed: "I wasn't surprised. I had faith in the people of Arkansas...
...bulletproof vest hung over his plaid shirt and his legs were encased in armored trousering when he was led, handcuffed, from a 61-ton armored van into Shelby County jail at dawn. A score of deputies with riot guns formed a defensive perimeter. Ray was hustled to an air-conditioned cell on the jail's third floor. Heavy steel plates block cell windows. Closed-circuit television cameras monitor all movements. Prison trusties who ran elevators have been replaced by sheriff's officers...
When you walk in, a buxom maiden in a red vest laced up the front comes to lead you to your seat. "One," I told...
...showed me to a seat in the middle, lit as if it were in a corner. The man across from me watched her approvingly as she walked away in her bright red vest. "Is your muffin hot?" I whispered...
...rebounding "peace market" drew much of its surprising strength from heavy buying by institutions- he mutual funds, pension funds, speculative "hedge" funds, insurance companies and trusts that usually stay on the sidelines during Wall Street's emotional spasms. This time the funds scrambled to rein vest their record hoard of idle cash...