Word: hourglasses
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From the heavy marble ornaments above the main door, an hourglass stands out in sharp and ominous relief. The Nürnberg court, jampacked for the first time in weeks, finally began to notice it. Time was running out for the accused...
...feature was the "Restoration bosom," in both evening and daytime dresses. Lucien Lelong hailed it as the "rediscovery of the shape of the body, emphasizing the bust." His black crepe daytime dress, Cythère, cost $360, and his evening dress, "Amphytrite," looked like a revival of the old hourglass figure. Lelong dubbed it the mermaid figure...
Lawn tennis, invented in England only two years before by a Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, was then played on an hourglass-shaped court with a sagging net and thick-framed rackets of almost as many shapes and sizes as there were players. Players served underhand, sedately lobbed the ball back & forth. In England, it was considered unsporting to hit a ball beyond an opponent's reach. But Dick Sears developed what he called "a mild form of volleying," took delight in tapping the ball "first to one side and then to the other, running my opponent all over...
...Hourglass. To the public observer, nothing startlingly new had developed. Premier Hideki To jo had made a violent and militant speech. Japanese troop transports, supposedly 70 strong, were supposedly still pouring fresh Japanese divisions into French Indo-China, for a possible thrust into Thailand and at the Burma Road, last artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo...
...Hourglass...