Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...delay in effecting the plan will be primarily for printing of new reserve cards to identify books which may leave the library. In addition to white cards for regular circulation and pink for reserve, Lamont will use green for reserves leaving during...
Lerner's book, based on the novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White, renders the Arthurian legend in humorous, gentle, and somewhat modern style. It traces the history of Camelot from its formation to its breakup on account of Guinevere's attraction for Lancelot, with just the right proportions of boisterousness and pathos...
...Scouts" sweatshirts for the boys for 56?. In Accra, attracted by the hawkers' tinkling bells, Ghanaian dandies eagerly sifted stacks of multicolored "Yankee shirts" selling for 28?, judiciously fingered other broni waawu-which literally means the "white man has died." The expression was coined after World War II for used clothes, then chiefly Army surplus, when the natives assumed secondhand garments had belonged to dead soldiers. It has even wider applications today...
...With white faces like town children...
...hilarity bubbles continuously through the pathos. In the velvety darkness of a movie theater, Albinus (no last name) is hypnotized by the usherette's "pale, sulky, painfully beautiful face.'' Margot is one of the daughters of the poor who have learned the market quotations on fair white bodies. Albinus, respectably and dully married, is enthralled by her, not because she is earthy, but because she might have stepped out of a stag magazine...