Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first prayer of all America . . . For nearly three long horrible years . . . the financial burden of Korea [piled] deficit on deficit, debt on debt, and tax on tax . . . Shooting and bloodshed in Korea are ended, at least for the time being . . . Our every effort is at work to fashion a lasting, sound and equitable peace and substitute reconstruction for destruction in that wartorn land...
...floor, a gust of icy wind still shakes the old house-but, often enough nowadays, the ghost that comes stalking is fresh from a textbook of modern psychiatry. Such old props as bleeding heads tucked under skeletonic elbows, or crimson stab wounds on vaporous bodies, are out of fashion. "Many modern ghosts," observes Editor Carrington in The Week End Book of Ghost Stories, "have become more human...
...bust, 33.9 in.; waist, 26.4; hips, 37.4. As described by Anthropologist Harry Shapiro, Norma, following the general U.S. trend, has greater height, a heavier waistline and narrower hips than the women of previous generations. But, though taller than her grandmother was, Norma is still dwarfed by the present-day fashion ideal. Dr. Shapiro doubted that Norma would get much taller in the future, since the U.S. process of growth seems to be slowing down...
...Roman Room" of a restaurant named Sasha's Palate, the tired moviemaker can lie down to a juicy buffalo steak, in what Hollywood considers Roman fashion. Upon entering the candlelit, gold-draped room, the diners toss their shoes into a basket and recline on a five-foot-wide divan which stretches around the walls. Sinking into a sea of pillows (45 in all) and gazing at a projection screen showing a Roman garden, the guests are served by waitresses dressed in silky purple pantaloons and boleros. In addition to buffalo steak, Sasha's offers such items as suckling...
...Darn Hot." And in the show-within-a-show, Miss Miller taps through "Tom, Dick, and Harry," one of those songs typical of Porter--unimportant in his score, good enough to be a show-stopper anywhere else. Regrettably, Miss Miller must share. "Always True to You in My Fashion" and "Why Can't You Behave?" with newcomer Tommy Rall. Rall, a dancer with a repugnant personality, is one of the film's few liabilities...