Word: whims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with most of their pride, which was not inevitable." Satisfied that they do not have to turn their former colony directly over to Indonesia and that provisions for an eventual plebiscite have been made, the Dutch are expected to accept. What Indonesia does is subject as always to the whim of its mercurial President Sukarno, who has been waging a nasty little paratroop war against the Dutch over the disputed territory. If Sukarno accepts the agreement, it means that he will have to back down from his longstanding boast that he would throw the Dutch out of western New Guinea...
...urge to go nude was her most public whim, but it seemed to be a guide to her, too. A strangely exhilarating dream led her away from the foster family of religious zealots who first convinced her of her guilt. "I dreamed I was standing up in church without any clothes on," she recalled, "and all the people there were lying at my feet on the floor, and I walked naked, with a sense of freedom, being careful not to step on anyone." Years later, after a hopeless, thankless, adolescent marriage to an aircraft worker, she posed nude for Christendom...
Fashion designers-like the fashions they design-go in and out of style with the irregular cadence of the female whim...
...throw a lurid light on Hollywood's supercolossal, cast-of-thousands inefficiency. Marlon Brando has already taken more than $1,000,000 in salary from the Mutiny on the Bounty production, conducting mutinies of his own that helped drive production costs beyond $20 million. Films exist at the whim of their stars. Marilyn Monroe's various illnesses have kept her away from Fox's Something's Got to Give; says Di rector Billy Wilder, who knows her from the anguished days of Some Like It Hot: "It used to be you'd call...
...land redistribution. Ayub's biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub-sponsored reforms as a ban on polygamy and the traditional Moslem system of instant divorce at the husband's whim (by in toning "I divorce thee" three times...