• In this infirmary, pundits are wheeled around by nurses in lovely white uniforms and starched caps.

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  • The largest crowd by far was made up of lawyers in starched collars, white shirts, and black suits.

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  • Moreover, Rosso's style with its vertical whirlpool of brightly colored cloth apparently starched enough to be as crisp as paper is protomodern.

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  • An hour from Udaipur, another Indian city, the authors spotted well-tended homes with motorcycles in the courtyard and children in starched school uniforms.

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  • Rafik served with care, offering the dishes from the left, removing plates from the right, the napkins starched and arranged like fans by the plates.

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  • With his striking beard and starched uniform, former Surgeon General C.

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  • Sitting by some potted plants, at a table laid with a starched white cloth, ex-General Nic van Rensburg and ex-Colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt said that they shot them dead after abducting them outside a hotel.

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  • The identity of the painting's subject is not known, but it is thought the balding, bearded man in a stiff, starched collar may be Juan Mateos, King Philip IV of Spain's master of the hunt.

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  • He wasn't a successful man but he gave the impression of being one, and when he took us out to lunch I marveled at the peremptory tone with which he addressed the waiters, brisk unsmiling men in starched white aprons who, in that adult room of wood paneling and cigar smoke, thoroughly intimidated the lanky, nervous adolescent I then was.

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