Word: elasticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As for land reform, López Portillo is unlikely to reverse expropriations already carried out. But he will move slowly on new ones. "The land is not made of rubber," he has told advisers. "It is not elastic." There will simply not be enough arable soil for everyone. Larger...
Allan Robertson (1915-59), the chief maker and supplier of feathery balls, stitched a spherical bag out of cowhide which was then stuffed with boiled feathers. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were packed into each ball. The unreliable and easily rotted feathery endured until around 1848 when the...
HAPPILY, director Paul Suchecki has offset the poorly chosen script with a fine pair of actors. Ed Redlich's Murph swaggers and spits his lines with the air of someone who is not too bright but whose instinct will take care of him; he's like a chubby rodent that...
"It's still a spit-and-elastic-band rig," said Rines when it was lowered into the loch, and right he was. Within three days, one strobe light had filled with water, the cylinder containing the Polaroid camera had leaked, and a flash unit was out.
Whatever a woman's size or shape, decolletage can slip into disaster for those into strapless chic. The drawstrings and elastic used to hold the garb up are not fall-safe. Arleen Sorkin, a Washington student, remembers the night her strapless turned topless in a Manhattan nightclub. Recalls she...