Word: cinching
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...game is up. No longer required to cinch, clinch, cushion or cover up, the new lightweight underwear makes only the slightest pretext at serious figure control, concentrates on "caressing" the body, rather than curtailing it, on "skimming" across the bosom, not shaping it, on "careening" around the bottom, not controlling it. Presumed at first to be gags, items like Rudi Gernreich's no-bra bra and Warner's body stockings instead have proved pacesetters for a rash of stretchable flesh-colored garments that look like a second skin, feel far silkier than the first...
...story at Chicago has been Bobby Hull, who scored his 37th goal in his 42nd game, and looked like a cinch to break the record of 50 goals in a season. But thanks to a knee injury and a slump, he has scored only one since, way back on February...
After winning six straight league games Brown finally lost Wednesday at Dartmouth, and fell into a tie for the league lead with the Indians. The Bruins are 15-5 overall, and are a cinch to get one of the eight berths in the post-season ECAC Tournament...
...Democratic proposals that it considered steps toward socialized medicine, from Harry Truman's program for compulsory national health insurance to John Kennedy's $1 billion medical-care-for-the-aged plan. As taken over by President Johnson and incorporated into the Great Society, medicare seems a cinch for passage this year by the hugely Democratic 89th Congress. But the A.M.A. is determined, in the words of one top official, "to go down fighting." Meeting last week in Chicago, the A.M.A. House of Delegates endorsed an all-out national drive against medicare, along with an equally all-out push...
...Maryland's Senator-elect Joseph Tydings, 36, were pretty impressive. She was an ultraloyal Democrat who had worked seven days a week for Tydings during the election campaign, could type 90 words a minute, take dictation at the stopwatch speed of 100 words per, and seemed a cinch for the job. But a girl can't have everything. It came out that leggy, blonde Mary Ellen Terziu, 23, also moonlighted her nights away as a bunny at the Baltimore Playboy Club. Up went the chances of the 200 other applicants for the job, and down went Mary Ellen...