Word: rhumba
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...Manhattan, swimsuits and playclothes were selling as if August were around the corner. At I. Magnin in San Francisco, suavely tailored pants outfits and evening pajamas vied for attention. Many of the designs, such as Calvin Klein's apron dress and Oscar de la Renta's rhumba number (see color pages), are deftly droll. There were raincoats that managed to be practical and chic as well, T shirts that could be worn to the opera, sportsuits that could enhance a dinner table as easily as the driving range...
...take the war very seriously. But terrorism has increased, and people get off the sidewalks quickly at night, even the streetwalkers. Last week five U.S. servicemen and 15 Vietnamese were wounded when a bomb was heaved into Saigon's Shadows Bar while the dance floor was crowded with rhumba dancers. The day before, a man on a motorcycle tossed a grenade at six American advisers standing at a Saigon bus stop, missing them but injuring four Vietnamese shoppers...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
...lamb surrounded by genuine lamb chops. The swan-song theme was carried out by a dozen huge swans, carved from ice, which graced the tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises in the yard. While a dance band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit and an eight-woman string ensemble blared and sawed away, Marianne, all in pink with a diamond tiara, held court in a bower of pink flowers. Said she, as the new day dawned and the icy swans began to melt a bit: "If I had known it was going...
...fact that he couldn't ski did not bother Vag too much, because although it snowed everyday, most of the people said the conditions were not right. Instead they sat around in the hotel and played rhumba, samba, canasta, and bridge and drank considerable. Before long any beginner could talk skiing with the best by slipping in an occasional "christy" or "slalom...