Word: breast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more weirdly named for the objects their shapes suggested to ancient anatomists, e.g., amygdala (almond), torcular Herophili (wine press of Herophilus), hippocampus (sea horse), mammillary body (little breast, or nipple...
...Burgoo King, Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox ... Flying Ebony. Jump, Peter. Fly like Flying Ebony." Another snake, as big as his thigh, strikes at him. The bottle drops and shatters on the radiator. Sobbing "Leave me alone. No more. No more," Peter collapses across the hotel bed on the bare breast of the nymphomaniacal redhead with whom he is sharing his bender...
Clothes, or the lack of them, naturally obsessed the fashion-conscious French amorists. During the 14th and 15th centuries, women wore disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist style at court and also stopped the show at the palace by affecting a kind of girl-in-the-Hathaway-patch masking of one breast. Brazenly posing as a Madonna, she managed to have this piquant fashion immortalized by Painter Jean Fouquet...
...Time and again we hear spurious assertions that America's defenses are weak, that her economic expansive force can be sustained only by federal spending, that her educational and health efforts are deficient. In this kind of preachment political morticians are exhibiting a breast-beating pessimism in the American system...
...both Dow-Jones and N.Y. Stock Exchange tickers, where Billy speculates in regal solitude (Rose began his career at 17 as a shorthand stenographer for that dean of speculators, Bernard Baruch). Shrugging back the shawl collar of his bulky white cardigan to expose the embroidered red "B.R." on the breast of his black polo shirt, Rose said he hoped to fill the empty places in his mansion with more antique furniture. As for his garden: "I may glass that in and build a swimming pool, if it's not too expensive, for warming my old bones. Nobody pampers...