Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other day, I was walking down JFK St. away from the Square, and as I approached Urban Outfitters a woman in a bright green outfit crossed the street. For a moment I thought that one of those blow-up Gumby figures had come to life. That night, during the seventh-inning stretch at Fenway, I looked out to the right grandstand and saw a bunch of people tossing one of those same plastic Gumbys around...
...Secord's outfit, Stanford Technologies Trading Group International, was only one of many such firms that have grown up around the Washington Beltway in the past decade, most of them staffed with veterans of the huge CIA covert operations of the Viet Nam era. Reacting both to the end of the war and to congressional investigations of covert activities, Jimmy Carter's CIA director Stansfield Turner purged nearly 800 people from the agency. Some of them turned up in the Beltway firms. "One result of the purge was that many of the former agents set up private companies that began...
Cashin said it was only the cold weather that prevented her from wearing her gold and baby blue belly dancing outfit to the tryouts--the casting agent had to settle for a snapshot of her costume insted...
Left to herself, Adele is rewarded with the life she always wanted -- based solely on appearance. She goes "from one perfect outfit to the next . . . Someone could always be watching." This obsession with surfaces is contagious: First Novelist Simpson also suffers from it. She uses brand names and meticulous descriptions of the ordinary to build an appearance of reality, but beneath the book's carefully crafted details there is not quite enough of the breath or pulse of life...
...Salvadoran army has grown fourfold, to 52,000, while that of the guerrillas has dropped from 10,000 to an estimated 5,000 to 6,000. The army's overall mobility and effectiveness have increased markedly, and it is no longer ridiculed as a "9-to-5" outfit whose officers go home on weekends and holidays...