Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodyguards ("You just can't be too careful with a man of this stature," says his manager). A black girl doing an "African dance of adoration" stops long enough to remove Hayes' orange, black and white cape, revealing him arrayed in black tights, fur cuffs, a leather vest and a necklace of gold chains...
There were occasional flashes of the familiar Fidel. Three hundred Cubans had been brought in to augment the Chilean security setup, so one newsman jestingly asked Castro if he was wearing a bulletproof vest, too. "Oye, it is as hot here as it is in Havana," he shot back. "I don't even wear an undershirt." But Castro plainly failed to arouse much excitement. When he arrived, a crowd of some 750,000 Chileans lined the streets of Santiago, chanting "Fidel, Fidel, give those Yankees hell!" Bigger and more enthusiastic crowds had turned out for Charles de Gaulle...
...innovation calls for three-year funding of economic and technical assistance programs. Congress has rejected long-term appropriations proposals in the past on the grounds that they would vest the Executive Branch with too much backdoor, discretionary power in doling out aid. This argument is likely to be heard again from a Congress determinedly asserting its foreign prerogatives. Even so, Nixon's proposal offers smoother organization and some long-needed overhauls in the kind and tone of American foreign...
...34th Street Greyhound station. Upstairs they had a place where you could make pictures for a quarter... Dean made a profile shot and looked coyly-around... Dean was wearing a real Western business suit for his trip back to Denver... blue with pencil stripes, vest and all-eleven dollars on Third Avenue...
...numbers to jet-setters in custom-made styles to grandmothers in sensible versions with matching jackets, women of all ages and sizes are wearing pants. Figure faults -unless they occur above the neck-are easily masked. Straight-leg styles make light of heavy thighs, and an accompanying tunic or vest-jacket can do wonders for a wayward waist and confine hips to a minimum. Moreover, pants are warm, comfortable and practical; properly selected and worn with cleverly alternating tops, two pairs of pants can stand in for a full week's wardrobe...