Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed the new order in corsets: it would uplift both midriff and morale...
...beaten Michigan. With backfield strength about equal, this was one more gridiron battle that was decided up front. The Michigan line hit hard, but not quite so hard as Ohio's, led by 190-lb. Bill Hackett, prospective All-America guard, and Bill Willis, husky Negro tackle. Their bone-crushing tackles were mainly responsible for four Michigan fumbles...
...Gillette was trounced by Iowa's short, balding Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, an able, popular Governor with internationalist leanings. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, a Republican who has supported the Roosevelt foreign policy 100%, won easy reelection. In Washington, the seat vacated by pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationist Homer Bone went to honey-haired Congressman Warren Magnuson, a 1,000% New Dealer...
...several weeks Pancho, the quick-tongued green parrot at Washington's Pan American Union, had reviled an Argentine student named Victor Fernandez, who went there to bone up on Latin American literature. One day last week Pancho screamed: "You're a beef-eating gaucho." Fernandez, who had had enough from one parrot, got angry and threatened to kill the bird...
With less than two weeks left to bone up for the election, U.S. citizens were not exactly rushing to buy books about the candidates. Stanley Walker's new campaign biography, Dewey; an American of This Century (Whittlesey House; $2.50), was no more a best seller than the year's two Roosevelt books: Compton Mackenzie's Mr. Roosevelt, Noel F. Busch's What Manner...