Word: hems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rock Cornish Game Hem With All the Trimmin...
Skirts and dresses can be flowing or straight and slit; hem lines are generally shorter, falling just under the knee or to midcalf, but hardly ever to the ground. Heels are high and narrow...
...speaking his mind. "I've seen all these people that hem and haw. They never quite get around to saying where they are or who they are or what they are, what they want, where they've been or where they're going. You have to make some judgments; you just can't keep waiting for more evidence...
...popular culture, on the myth of the individual who is the master of his own fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane interstate, with a Smokey Bear lurking at every cloverleaf. For those people, fantasies of the free life live on in country music, which shamelessly romanticizes the road, and its Truckey cowboys...
...were plucked to safety by fire fighters on ladders. But others panicked, threw open their doors and plunged into the inferno in a desperate sprint for the stairs. Two oeds leaped to their deaths on the frozen ground 40 ft. below. Said one sobbing Providence student: "People were telling :hem not to jump. I guess they didn't hear." Fire fighters needed only 42 minutes to douse the blaze-but that was time enough for seven young women to die and 15 others to be injured. Five bodies were found huddled together in the corridor, less than...