Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. David Dubinsky, 90, visionary president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1932 to 1966; of complications following hip surgery; in New York City. A 1911 refugee from tsarist Poland, he took over the l.L.G.W.u. when it was nearly bankrupt and quickly built its strength until he was able to negotiate the first 35-hour work week and all but ban sweatshops in the garment industry. A volcanic anti-Communist liberal, he also established the first employer-financed workers' vacations, the first health and welfare fund, the first workers' retirement fund and the first severance...
Before Witkowski went on his rampage, Harvard quarterback Ron Cuccia had an edge in both the stats and crowd appeal departments. Cuccia tossed 12 passes for eight completions and 106 yards but had to leave the game in the second quarter after he suffered a hip pointer. He was hit while dropping back to pass. The hit forced the Crimson QB to fumble but he recovered the ball and ran up the middle for seven yards...
...suffered two heart attacks and was still feeling the effects of breaking his hip last November, Begin, 69, was working last week at his usual rigorous pace. He generally rises at 5 a.m., and for the next three hours, after breakfasting on sour milk, cold herring and tea (no lemon, milk or sugar, but some artificial sweetener), he reads four Hebrew-language daily newspapers and the English-language Jerusalem Post. Around 8 a.m., he is whisked to his office eight minutes away in the silver Dodge that serves as Israel's official car for the Prime Minister. Then he really...
...gleam in their eyes, a Singapore firm has introduced blue jeans with a solid-gold label and a similarly lustrous price tag: $850. Yane jeans bear a Y-shaped trademark, which is made with 1.12 oz. of 22-karat gold, on the pants just above the right hip pocket...
...Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...