Word: silk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important state of Bahia, Juracy broke with the dictator in 1937, helped found the U.D.N. to fight the dictatorship. But in its first campaign, U.D.N.'s candidate was quoted-or misquoted-as saying: "I don't need votes from lunch-pailers." Ever after, U.D.N. was considered a silk-hat, antilabor party...
...floor trooped bobby-soxers and Brahmins, camera-slung tourists, oilmen and stenographers and schoolteachers. One need be neither Catholic nor Christian to be received, and the white-robed Holy Father walked among them all, making brief small talk in six languages, handing out holy medals, even exchanging his white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree, but tranquil and tranquilizing -a Gothic figure whose vestments...
...ancient, ponderous rituals began. Swiss Guards drew a heavy iron chain across the Gandolfo Palace entrance, and in Rome the great bronze doors of St. Peter's clanged shut. Attendants removed the flannel pajamas in which the Pope died and dressed the body in a white silk cassock and an ermine-trimmed crimson velvet cape. Sister Pasqualina, the German nun who had been the Pope's devoted housekeeper, had a small ritual of her own. She assembled the Pope's half-dozen pet birds and, carrying their cage and two suitcases, left for an unannounced destination...
Prolechariot. In Peking, the Communist press announced the production of a new, de luxe Chinese motorcar-an eight-cylinder, air-conditioned sedan with silk rug carpeting and a scented mahogany dashboard...
NOMILY: "No. In sober moments I paint delicate, soft colored Chinese silk screen landscapes...