Word: chic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area," decreed emergency police powers, and banned the U.N.M. (which simply changed its name and continued the boycott), and arrested its top leaders. But the movement ran into another kind of resistance when street food stalls refused to sell to African women who have abandoned Buganda custom by wearing chic dresses and combing their hair. Replied one local lady, in a remark that deserves a durable place in the language of the battle of the sexes: "If they boycott us, we'll girlcott them...
...this be true, there are many, verily, hordes, who have wasted the best years of their lives in the stacks of Widener--studying.) In place of "an ethical commitment to thoroughness and an esthetic which values craftsmanship in research and writing" there exists "a straining for originality and chic...
...President Eisenhower one day last week Clare Booth Luce submitted her resignation. Taking global view from a vantage point high atop towers of Manhattan's fabled, fantastic Rockefeller Center was mellowing mate Henry R. Signposts pointed to a clear and tragic dilemma, resolved only by judicious sacrifice by Clare, chic and civic at fifty-five...
...point, even at the best-run cocktail party, when a drinker, momentarily alone in a corner, nervously jiggles the ice cubes in his glass and looks about with a glance that says unmistakably: "What am I doing here?" At that moment, the bright, articulate men sound empty and the chic, smiling women appear sad. This detached mood of mild horror is usually gone with the next drink, but Novelist McLaughlin has made it last the length of a very good short novel...
...scramble has come a golden chance for British newswomen to feather their nests as never before. Old hands for new jobs: chic, leggy (5 ft. 111n., 130 Ibs.) Anne Scott-James, 44, who left the Sunday Dispatch fortnight ago to fill the specially created post of adviser to the Beaverbrook empire (four papers with a total circulation of more than 8,000,000); buxom, blonde Eileen Ascroft, forty-sixish, who will leave Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April to primp up the score of dowdy women's magazines that Press Lord Cecil King (the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial...