Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things irritate a woman more-or more frequently-than a run in her stocking. But women have been forced to live with their runs for the sake of fashion sheerness-and the perishability of hose is the boon of manufacturers. Runless stockings have been developed, but few women like the seams that come with them. Last week this feminine plague at last seemed on its way out. Two hosiery companies are racing neck and neck to be first on the market with stockings that are both seamless and runproof...
...runproof hose will not be marketed for two or three months. Hanes's price will be $1.75 (v. $1.35 for an ordinary pair of hose); Chadbourn Gotham has not yet set a price. Though women may be rescued from such agonies as the discovery of a run on their way to a party, they will pay another price for the improvement: the new stockings will be noticeably meshier...
...reflected by the index, the British worker no longer wears a cap, but he sports a necktie. His wife has abandoned lisle hose for nylon and wears a girdle. Their children no more appear in hand-me-downs; working-class boys wear blazers, and girls blue jeans. More dramatic, say merchants, are changes in their choice of food and furnishings. Twice as much sherry is drunk today as ten years ago. Housewives ignore cheap meat cuts in favor of chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with...
...find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith than ever in the shelter." Kim Novak, artfully decked out in slacks, soot and no bra, rushed back from her studio during the fire to grab up a garden hose, but was unabashedly just as concerned with soaking up publicity as with soaking down her house. Her $200,000 manse survived unharmed, as did the nearby rented quarters of the Richard M. Nixons. But at the height of the fire the former Vice President, not taking any chances, first evacuated...
Masters in the other Houses served by the central kitchen said complaints about the food have been about average, but they expressed a desire to hear from students who are dissatisfied. Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell Hose, reported that one tutor has been upset by "an ungodly quantity of hash...