Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, a very plain man indeed, who had never sought or dreamed of being Man of the Atomic Year, had been cast up to his position by an accident of the tides, by the shifting forces of politics. In the same startled and unpremeditated fashion, mankind itself, shrinking from the shadow of Hiroshima, dwarfed by the Event of 1945, had got where...
...little-known Canadian magazine, the Hudson's Bay Company's Beaver (circ. 15,000), went far afield last week for a scoop: the first Eskimo fashion show...
...cavernous Willow Run plant last week, workmen swarmed around an auto chassis, lifted in the motor, fastened on the wheels and then, finally, bolted on a body. In this handmade fashion, the Frazer, the first car of the new automaking team of Joe Frazer and Henry Kaiser, was turned out. Wider than most cars, and lower, it was Graham-Paige's contribution to the team. In a week, the new Kaiser-Frazer Corp. will turn out its contribution, the Kaiser car, made in the same fashion. Both corporations acquired something even more important, a top production man: Edward...
...Around the hips she is a 38, two inches broader than her older sister was six years ago. Dress designers have rallied to fight the battle of the bulge-with greatly exaggerated squaring of shoulders, nipped-in waists, cascading and flaring skirts, peplums, hip-length swagger jackets. Typical London fashion ad last week: "for the slim or not-so-slim," "for the more awkward figure...
Next day Winston Churchill came back to a whirling storm of young Tory complaints. At a meeting of the backbenchers, Churchill slumped in a red leather armchair, listened sourly for 90 minutes to their pent-up criticisms. In schoolmasterly fashion Churchill reminded the younger men that they would better appreciate Parliament tactics when they had a few more years behind them...