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Word: hems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saucer" as bulky as six 6-B29s. A prospector in the Cascade Mountains saw six discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between .hem, hit the ground, spun around, bounced up again making whistling noises, and sped off over the trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Pretty Vivien Leigh tripped daintily up the narrow, old-fashioned stairs in her London home, caught her foot in the hem of the fur coat she was carrying, tumbled down again. A sprained back forced her to step out of her three current Old Vic roles for two weeks. Said Vivien: "It was a beautiful fall." Said husband Sir Laurence Olivier: "My God, I thought she had broken her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face. In the old version, a flirtation then began. In the Red version, she says sweetly: "How can you sleep while foreign imperialists are sucking the blood of your people?" The shepherd rises, flexes his muscles, recognizes his duty, and exits with the girl into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...have the New Look; you have let down your hem; she has had that dress since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Highly Irregular | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...style of skirt was described as dangerous, unflattering, expensive, and an annoyance to wear. Miss Manuellian caught her heel in the hem of one and all but fell down a flight of stairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Girls Don't Like Hobble Skirts, but... | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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