Word: accordioned
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...standard equipment on the '67s. So will "anchorages" -to which car owners can attach shoulder harnesses, which are supposed to be more effective than current seat belts (when the harnesses themselves will become standard is still uncertain). G.M., Chrysler and A.M.C. will introduce steering columns that collapse, accordion-fashion, under impact, thereby lessening the danger of chest and abdominal injuries to drivers. Ford has a somewhat similar device and, beginning with the 1969 model year, will start producing cars with collapsible front ends designed to crumple systematically and cushion collisions...
...Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo with Greer Garson on maracas, Danny Kaye on bass and Cesar Romero on fiddle). He dubbed the piano score for a film (I've Always Loved You) and collected $85,000 for the three days' work. His RCA Victor records sold so well that he called his place...
...There were 37 million amateur musicians in the U.S. last year, up from 19 million in 1950. Mostly they played the piano (22.3 million), the guitar (7,500,000) and the organ (3,600,000). The ukulele and the accordion, fortunately, lost ground. In 1950 one of every 7.8 Americans played a musical instrument; today the ratio is one of every 4.8, making self-made music second only to reading as the nation's most popular leisure-time activity...
...Barbara Harris, a versatile, beguiling imp of a clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
Another serious space-suit problem is flexibility. Contrast between the pressure inside and the vacuum outside tends to make the suit as tight as a drumhead. To move at all, arms and legs must be fitted with accordion-like joints. To judge by his motions, Leonov could move his arms fairly freely, but his legs and torso seemed stiff and straight most of the time...