Word: gaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...
...entertainers, businessmen, farmers, athletes-and the U.S.S.R. sent to the U.S. 68 projects with 516 members. The cultural-exchange mood boomed the flow of U.S. tourists to the U.S.S.R. from some 4,000 in 1957 to an estimated 15,000 this year (TIME, June 22). No longer do Russians gape at the U.S. visitors as rarities from a mysterious other world...
Little boys dangled from saman trees to gape, and thousands of brightly dressed West Indians packed the roadside in Port of Spain, Trinidad, to cheer. Princess Margaret, slightly sunburned after her first two days in the tropics, but somehow managing to look cool in a full length white satin gown, rolled slowly along in an open car, smiling and waving...
...GAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 6--The Vanguard test rocket--with U.S. hopes for some recaptured prestige aboard--barely struggled off the ground today, then fell back and exploded...
Everywhere the Queen and Prince Philip went, Parisian crowds gathered to gape and cheer. Outside the opera the welcoming hordes pressed so close that the mounted guards had to drive them back with drawn swords. At a huge reception in the Louvre many of the 2,000-odd distinguished guests vied with each other for vantage points on the pedestals of world-famed works of art as museum guards shook their heads in despair. "I expected Marcus Aurelius to topple over on me at any moment," said one grande dame nervously. As the party broke up, even the footmen...