Word: wiltedness
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Cut flowers wilted far from florist shops; live lobsters piled up awaiting shipment from Maine. Manufacturers dependent on air shipment of electronic parts suffered production delays. Traveling salesmen and executives resorted to circuitous odysseys, chartered air taxis-or stayed home and used a phone.
As always, the carnival atmosphere was frenetic. One contessa's elegant evening of black-tie art patronage wound up with frugging into the wee hours until neighbors, annoyed at the noise, pelted the windows with pebbles. Artist Francois Dallegret, who fashions fantastic automobiles, decked himself out like a skyrocket...
"Eats Hamburger!" Biggest kickoff for the new season is still New York's International Flower Show, which last week attracted some 300,000 flower lovers, who paraded through the Coliseum for the first, if fleeting, glimpse of spring. More than ever, it was a strange hybrid of beauty and...
His line was tailored to the increasingly prosperous and conservative Italian working classes. Communist Party membership has wilted from its postwar peak of 2,145,317 to 1,615,296, and the slippage among youth groups (off 60%) and in the factories has been even more drastic. Seeking to match...
Forgotten Bash. Corsages wilted, par ty gowns wrinkled, coiffures uncoiffed. The silence in the galleries grew more and more ominous; the menfolk below had plainly forgotten all about Lyndon's bash. All the Republicans could think about was new amendments to the bill. For example, Kansas' Bob Dole...