Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weight, for every ounce of extra weight in the airframe means one less ounce of payload. The designer works in media almost unknown in other industries. He designs strong structures from thin, light metals. These metals impose rigid limitations on the designs, for it is frequently difficult to fashion them...
...show, Storm was matched against a Skye terrier which looked like a dust mop, a prissy poodle, a sad-eyed bloodhound, a self-conscious Irish setter and a pudgy pug. It was hardly a contest. Storm, sleek and cocky, paraded around with the aplomb of a high-fashion model. He stood stolidly as the judge solemnly inspected his teeth, eyes, haunches and toenails. Some 10,000 dog fanciers were on tenterhooks as the judge walked over to where all the silverware was. Dramatically, at just the proper moment, the judge pointed at Storm, the winner. Storm yawned...
Dress Designer Elizabeth Hawes once Held that feminine fashion is spinach and said to hell with it. Gimbels' Manhattan department store holds that the crop has since changed. Until recently, it said in its ads, fashion was an onion; now it is a carrot. "Women have variously looked like hour-glasses, test-tubes, snakes, string-beans, pincushions, fiddles, pyramids and in one supreme burst of misguided effort, men. But lately things have been pretty undrastic. Until now, that is. Now the fashion silhouette has been stood on its head. The little-top-and-full skirt (or onion look...
...after World War II began. Cadet Heinz Schaeffer, 18, soon found that officers and NCOs had ways of putting iron into the German navy's new blood. Each man was handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas...
...historians. Taken together, the eight volumes show little of the intellectual curiosity and range of the writings of Thomas Jefferson (six volumes published, 46 to come). But the character which builds in them, especially during the later years, is more impressive than anything the legendmakers have been able to fashion. The native wit, the humility, the triumphant common sense are as abundant as the 5,000-odd books about him claim they were...