Word: gird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blueprint for the construction of peace." Behind that message lies the fact that the Viet Nam war-with its massive in flux of U.S. dollars-has had a major economic impact on non-Communist Asia. With peace a distinct, if still distant possibility, the challenge confronting Asians is to gird their war-swollen economies for a more enduring-and healthier-resurgence...
With me against these empty captains! gird...
...also branched out into men's fashions, fielded his corps of boy and girl "cosmonauts" in jumpers and welders' helmets for the third season, as if to insist that they will really make it to the moon. His newest touch was wide, wide vinyl "space belts," which gird the torso from belly button to bosom bottom, zip up the back...
...nickname "Iven the Terrible" at Gallipoli in World War I for single-handedly holding a trench under heavy Turkish assault for two hours, in World War II was a brilliant field officer, leading Anzac troops to a stunning victory in Libya before returning home in 1941 to gird against an invasion by Japan that happily never came; after a long illness; in Sydney...
Except, of course, to the opposite extreme. In the new undergarment collections, slips, half-slips, panty girdles, panties and bras are stirringly designed to be seen as well as to gird. Bright stripes, polka dots and designs are all over, lending underwear new snap, crackle and also pop. There is a panty brief with a printed-on image of an oversized zipper that never expected to or could get zipped, another with an American-flag motif. A third has a pair of eyes that wink from the rear, shed a tear in the front−virtually demanding comment from hasty...