Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case histories reveal interesting sidelights on American buying patterns. Joseph Josephson, who sells combination high-chairs and tables with sunshades and plastic bibs, has found that "when people have a new baby in the family they are really wonderful, generous, tolerant, and will provide the maximum." Over 8200 Americans own breeding chinchillas, "fecundity guaranteed," at over $1000 a pair...
Indonesia's swaggering President Sukarno almost never takes off his black military-cut pitji in public: he doesn't like to reveal the fact that he is getting balder as the years go by. But protective covering is not the only item in Sukarno's bag of political tricks. If Indonesia is in mild difficulty, Sukarno blames "Western colonialism"; if the country's difficulties begin to cause visible concern at home, he produces hair-raising tales of Dutch, English and U.S. sabotage; and when things really get bad, he trots out the tired, threadbare but ever...
...tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands . . . or their slaves or male attendants who lack vigor, or children who know naught of women's nakedness...
...star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...
...subjects, however, of these essays reveal the peripheral and romantic attraction with which at least the editor viewed the West. The collection is composed of pieces on "The Indians We Fought," "The Mountain Men," "The Scouts," "The Ladies," "The Prospectors," "Saddlebag Docs," and "Shootin' Irons." Very little of the book is spent describing the bulk of the people who settled the West, the farmers and small ranchers...