Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took along marshmallows for toasting; and the candle-bearing novice who set fire to the veil of another novice in the procession for Compline, the last office of the convent day. "There was plenty of action," recalled the Novice Mistress with a hearty laugh. One young sister, thinking to wrap a rug around the victim, tried to pull the only rug handy out from under the flaming novice, while another snatched off the veil and stamped on it. "The fire," said the Novice Mistress, "went out, and so did the novice-without her veil...
...Washington's staunchest bachelors, new House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 63, made a date with his youngest sister, Lucinda Rayburn, gallantly helped her into a fur wrap before they headed for the White House, where Texas-Democrat Rayburn was the President's dinner guest of honor...
...Wheeler cruiser with twin 200-h.p. diesels, a complete electric galley, two showers, and staterooms for eight. It was sold for $88,000 to John Sparler of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a paper executive. The flashiest boat was Century Boat Co.'s chrome-trimmed, 55-m.p.h. Coronado speedboat, with wrap-around windshield and a 285-h.p. Cadillac V-8 engine. Ten minutes after the doors opened, Radu Irimescu, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S., who now works for Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., snapped it up for about...
...purpose of the year-end reviews is to wrap up the economic developments of the entire year and project them into an estimate of what may be expected in the year to come. This is how some of our last year's predictions stood up against the news of 1954: we predicted a production of 5,500,000 autos; the final figure is 5,500,000. We said there would be 3,500,000 unemployed; the peak figure was 3,725,000. For refrigerators we estimated 3,500,000 units would be produced; 3,425,000 units were turned...
...models are 1 in. lower, have a wider, cleaner grille, new wrap-around windshields, and slanted headlights for a more rakish look. Mercury's new luxury model, the Montclair, has an even more powerful (198 h.p.) engine and a body that is 2½ in. lower (height: 58½ in.) than other Mercurys...