Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early one morning last week, a blonde, 25-year-old Parisienne, whose married name is Mme. Jacques Charrier and who works for the movies, was delivered of a healthy, blue-eyed, 7-lb. baby boy. Long before Nicholas Jacques Charrier entered Paris, the French press, excited beyond endurance-and reason-turned his mother's accouchement into the biggest story since the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle...
...hackie's license and medallion. Then he hired a driver who ferries the Schweitzers around and spends the rest of his time hacking on his own (he and the boss split the fares fifty-fifty, giving the cabbie 5% more than he would ordinarily get). The driver, whose name was noticed by a Schweitzer employee on her way to work, is also Louis Schweitzer...
What designers had up their big sleeves was a silhouette that defied a name. Some dubbed it the "Easy Look," others the "Airlift Look," still others the "Dragonfly Look." It accented huge, winglike sleeves and a wandering waistline. Designer Ceil Chapman's funnel-sleeved line highlighted the "pyramid waist," high in front and low in back. Designers Norman Norell and James Galanos achieved the long-torso effect by dropping the waistline well down to the hip. Designers expect that the wandering waistline will make women's figures look slimmer. Manufacturers expect that it will fatten retail-sales figures...
...question." Black Starr & Gorham followed with a "not me" ad in the Times. The Times's Advertising Columnist Robert Alden reported that the jewelry buyer was Prince Sadruddin Khan, half brother of Aly Khan and uncle of the new Aga Khan. Though other New York jewelers know the name of the seller, for "ethical considerations" they cannot name him. But somebody must be talking, Alden concluded: "The word is that a stream of customers have been going into his shop and asking for their money back on purchases from...
...recalled of the novel later was a brief interchange with the publisher ("The House of Cassell does not print the word 'bloody' "). The author, whose collected works probably do not contain a four-letter word, changed '"bloody" to "ruddy" and dropped his last name for fear his bosses would regard an off-hours fictioneer as "not a serious person." The peak of Shute's engineering career was his work on the airship R. 100, in which he made a triumphant transatlantic crossing to Canada and back in 1930. Short weeks later, an ill-fated sister ship...