Word: hem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattanites seldom waste a glance on the towers of steel and stone that hem them in. They are content instead to let their eyes rest on rich objects displayed behind plate glass in the towers' ground-floor shops. Last week a new office building on midtown Park Avenue forced New Yorkers to look aloft for the simple reason that it has no shops and seems, to have no ground floor...
Issue Skirted. In London, the trade journal Tailor & Cutter denounced pajamas, advised how to keep a nightshirt from creeping up during sleep: "Put your garters on upside down and connect the fasteners with the hem...
...quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...
...little girl turned her head over one shoulder and slowly revolved on one heel, as if trying to examine the back of her own frock. She then stooped suddenly, brushed the hem with her hand, and said, "Hullo...
...negotiations with Western Europe's ministers, Acheson had been invariably punctilious and polite. He had argued untiringly, without raising his voice. But in the end, instead of pulling the conference up to his level, he had too frequently let himself be pulled down to the level of his hem-hawing, tiptoeing fellow conferees. And yet, among the North Atlantic nations, the U.S. was the dominant and also the indispensable power; its duty was to lead...