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...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...
Such measures may help the Church of England gird for spiritual battle-and it must. "It's not a question of the Anglican Church's losing ground," says the Rt. Rev. Edward Ralph Wickham, Suffragan Bishop of Middleton. "We've already lost it." Of 27 million Englishmen baptized in the church, only 3,000,000 receive Communion even once a year, and cathedral deans hollowly conduct their stately services before a silent...
...that the holiday season is upon the land and men and women gird and girdle themselves for the festive round, more often than not. and more often than ever before, they are finding themselves welcomed by hostesses wearing what seem to be bathrobes. Once they might have backed away in confusion, certain they had arrived too early or too late. But the hour is right, and so, they have learned, is the hostess' dress...