Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographers, 14 of the girls came demurely clad in simple dresses or suits. Miss Egypt came in a low-cut gown which, as she rose to leave after lunch, fell off her shoulders altogether. When the others wore the prescribed one-piece bathing suits, Miss Egypt appeared in a Bikini that must have been assembled under a microscope. "These other girls," she explained to the press, with a slap at her hips, "have nothing here...
...group got a spiritual pep talk from the institute's music director, Max Helfman. He told them about young people turning to their religion-"Imagine, 80 young college girls in Bikini bathing suits sitting beside that beautiful swimming pool practicing their parshah [the part of the Bible to be read in the Sabbath service] ... I know some of you are asking, 'But why is a return to true Judaism so important?' I will tell you why. Because 2,000 years ago the Jews brought their message to the world and Christianity was the result...
Last year a vacationing Italian engineer and nobleman dragged his gaze away from Capri's ubiquitous Bikini bathing suits long enough to notice some eels at play. Those particular eels, thought the Marchese Domingo de Mistura, need fresh water. Their presence was an unmistakable sign that there must be fresh-water springs under the island. With little more than that to go on, Mistura persuaded local and Italian officials to help him drill a well. Last week, after five months of digging through folds of hard rock near Anacapri, he struck fresh water at a point 171 feet below...
...expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value to the U.S. is purely military: some islands serve as bases, others (Bikini, Eniwetok) have served as sites for testing atomic bombs. The new High Commissioner sees his task as "giving the islanders a chance to develop." His headquarters: Honolulu, at least until completion of proposed new headquarters at Truk, southwest Pacific base of the wartime Japanese fleet...
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