Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kulcu's Hip-Huggers. At the cheap end of the spectrum is Manhattan's Kuku shop, which opened last month especially to ride herd on the new four-footed fad. For $390, Kuku will part with a harebrained outfit consisting of rabbit hip-huggers in black-and-white...
The Swiss could not care less, so long as the smugglers register their purchases for export. The contrabbandieri respond gratefully by registering-most of the time. As a result, official Swiss statistics show that cigarette exports to Italy (usually of U.S. brands made under license in Switzerland) flared from 50...
Doing the Mekes. Producer of the tattoo* is retired Brigadier Alasdair MacLean of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his...
The Untamed. The most poignant passages in the volume, however, describe what happened to mustangs who could not be tamed. Many of them broke their own backs while trying to buck their riders off. The great White Pacing Stallion, the most famous mustang of them all, was captured after a...
All of Bulwer-Lytton. As the daughter and second child of an unsuccessful and fiddle-footed land speculator, she grew up with no settled home. She was born in Ontario, Ore., but her childhood memories begin with Iliff, Colo. ("It looked like a stage set for High Noon"), where the...