Word: girth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision not to enforce a longtime ban on bikinis. West Germany's men's wear industry in recent years has had to add a new clothing classification, tactfully dubbed Boss or Manager size; nearly a quarter of all new clothes are now bought by customers of managerial girth, while sales of "normal" sizes are diminishing...
Reflections on his own girth, however, quickly led him to more pleasing speculations. "Feed," thought Karandas happily. He was on his way to the Biology Labs to meet a follow countryman for dinner. "Curries," he mused, and last himself in a devotional contemplation of those dishes. Gene, suddenly, were his visions of the cramped, plaster-cracked room he had just left, and his rankling grudge against universities in particular and Americans in general allowed itself to be soothed and coddled...
Then from radio monitor stations strung around the girth of the earth came bad news. One of the rockets had given too much push, and Ranger III was moving too fast. Instead of streaking toward the moon at the proper speed of 24,500 m.p.h., it was moving at more than 25,000 m.p.h. It would slice through the moon's orbit in 55 hours instead of 66 as planned. And at that time, the moon would not be there; Ranger III would miss by nearly 25,000 miles (see diagram...
...Bill Pearl's health studio in Sacramento last week, a grunting behemoth of a man did twelve pushups, then collapsed in a sweat. "God, you're strong, Jesse," gasped an admirer. California Assemblyman Jesse Marvin ("Big Daddy") Unruh, 38, surveyed his 275-lb. girth and rumbled happily: "If I get any stronger, I'll be so goddam strong I'll be deadly...
...tailed monsters are identified. They were the first operational A-bombs ever built. "Little Boy," the slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man," with its 5-ft. girth, crushed Nagasaki. Between them, the two bombs, each packing the punch of 20,000 tons of TNT, accounted for more than 200,000 casualties and dumped the world unceremoniously into the responsibilities of the nuclear...