Word: hems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depending on the clemency of the weather and the intensity of the wearer's frug. Gone are laundry and cleaners' bills; all that's needed is a good eraser. Gone, too, are needle and thread and painstaking alterations. A quick snip of the scissors and the hem is shortened, the neckline lowered, while cut outs sprout all over. As for rips, Scotch Tape is all that's needed for instant repairs...
...months at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, immersing himself in F.D.R.'s prewar foreign policy in preparation for Volume IV of The Age of Roosevelt. He will surely return some day to Washington, for, as an unfriendly writer puts it, he likes to "sniff at the hem of power" too much to stay away permanently...
...major advantage of bonding is that it eliminates the need for a separate lining. This not only saves considerable labor and cost, but also does away with the loose linings that tend to bunch up in the sleeve or tear loose at the hem...
...designed for upperclassmen, for the most part, half-courses. But the Faculty has now decided that General Education can be postponed until a student's upperclass years; and that it can be administered in small courses (Nat Sci 1 has only a handful of people in it and even Hem 4 is smaller than many upper-level courses). We see no reason that half-courses cannot be part of the Gen Ed program...
Treating the practice as something of a family scandal, he let only close friends know of his poems and published just a few in an obscure German magazine, Der Querschmitt. Now, two of Hem ingway's longer poems - four-letter words and all - have been published in the Atlantic Monthly...