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Word: bosomed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brassiere. Rescued just in time by one of his fellow workers, the tailor fled out of the door with the black lace brassiere between his teeth." What made him do it? "He had become engaged to a bar hostess," the Post concluded, "who was endowed with a most enviable bosom. However, after several months, he found his bride-to-be gradually diminishing in the curves he admired most. One day he saw her entering a house, from which she emerged with her bosom once again restored to their former significant proportions. Confronted with the evidence of one of Saigon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Antic English in Saigon | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Throughout her career, with the same diminutive voice and figure ("If I had a bosom," she once declared, "I could rule the world"), Julie Harris has been a world of women. In her first triumph 15 years ago, she was twelve-year-old Frankie in The Member of the Wedding. With a small voice issuing from a still smaller chest and her hair cropped as short as a boy's, she managed to convey a blossoming femininity, the seedling woman of passion and perception. She was a sentimental strumpet in I Am a Camera, a queen in Victoria Regina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Lights It Spells Harris | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Constant Clown. Barbara Harris plays it all in reverse. She not only has a bosom, she saucily displays it. As a constant nympho in Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, she nearly fell out of her blouse giggling, wiggling and winding around a virginal young man in a nocturnal round of seductio ad absurdum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Lights It Spells Harris | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...people agree with America's film critic Moira Walsh, herself a Legion consultor, who argues that something is still wrong with a rating system that can condemn a serious attempt at cinema art like The Pawnbroker for the sole reason that it shows a young woman baring her bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Changing Legion of Decency | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...results of permitting posts to be "bartered away for political purposes" are often astonishing. "We have had an ambassador in South America," he writes, "who imbibed so heavily that he fell flat on the embassy floor, an ambassador in Portugal who propelled whipped cream into a lady's bosom across the dinner table, an ambassador in The Netherlands who was known as 'Herman the Hormone' because of his propensity for pinching the behind of any girl within reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kind Words for Mr. Bastard | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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