Word: cinches
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Last fall, it was a cinch to cinch yourself. This spring your dirndl cries for a waist-whittling belt, of even wider and more alluring contours. After extensive tests, our model hit upon shiny cowhide contrasted strikingly with even-textured cottons. Departures from standard materials--straw, dog-leases, and metal--will spice up informal, summery outfits...
...Radcliffe girl, typically enough, is resisting the trend and distorting the graph. Their waist-lines are getting higher, their waists are getting smaller with an assist from the cinch belt. Curves along the hips and bust are re-accentuated, re-exaggerated, and re-inflated...
...Crimson, playing without the ill Dick Clasby, pushed in three goals in the first period, to virtually cinch the game then and there. Almost all came on good pass plays: Almy to Manchester at 3:53; Cooledge to Bliss at 6:06; and Hubbard to Greeley...
...next day the angle was PROTESTS MOUNT OVER CONANT. "Informed sources" were most verbose, stating that the Democratic Minority leader in the Senate had received 1,000 telegrams protesting the appointment. "If Lyndon B. Johnson got 1,000 it is a cinch that Eastern and Mid-Western Senators got plenty more...
...three Purple Hearts and four battle stars as a reconnaissance sergeant in Patton's Third Army. He also got a badly crushed shoulder and a broken arm from a jeep accident. But Lloyd Mangrum, durable and determined, returned to the tough tournament grind convinced that "golf is a cinch compared to what I went through in the war." His first year back, playing for the U.S. Open title, golf's most coveted prize, Mangrum coolly sank a 75-ft. putt in the final round to stay in the running, then won a tense triple playoff from Byron Nelson...