Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest thing in auto accessories is "jaguar chest" and "corvette hip." So reported Dr. Jerome F. Strauss Jr. of Chicago last week, in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association. The use of smaller cars has become so wide spread, said Dr. Strauss, that doctors should watch their patients for a "small-car syndrome," marked by complaints of chest and hip aches. He suspects that the aches can often be traced to a smaller car or sports car, which has less room, requires more muscle power to drive...
...problem of narrower doors and often depressed floors and offset control pedals. The enthusiast may tend to forget that he is using the muscles of the chest and shoulder girdle in a fashion to which he is not accustomed when he first acquires his new automobile.'' The hip and back symptoms are caused by the necessity of rotating the hip when entering or leaving a smaller car and "limitations in foot room that com pel the front-seat passenger to sit with the lower half of the body rotated in order to secure the maximum available space...
...etymon is in old English wrestling-to have on the hip; to render an opponent powerless because tractionless...
...Hip" replaced the enunciation "hep," which had all the current meanings. Why? Because some hepster preferred the key of i to that of e, just as English vowel changes produced...
...hip Frogman Morgan wears a gold-plated .45 with a bullet ready in the chamber. Tommy-gun-carrying bodyguards follow him around. He and his Cuban bride live in a six-room apartment on Havana's waterfront Malecón drive. It has 18 bunks, where the frog-farm workers, who call him "William,'' sleep whenever they come to town. His U.S. citizenship was lifted for fighting in a foreign army, and he laments that he is "running out of countries." But he professes optimism about his future in Cuba, even though "Fidel...