Word: hovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waists: Down. By tradition (and the essential limitations of design), fashion rings up changes in three areas: hemline, waist and shoulders. For 1959, hemlines and waists are lower. The trend is to nicely bloused tops, wider shoulderlines, sleeves that hover near the elbow level, big collars, plenty of pleats and button-downs-provided the top three buttons stay unbuttoned...
...earth's speed in its travel on its orbit. If the ship has only barely escape velocity, it will circle around the sun indefinitely on an orbit close to the earth's-just as bombs, in the newsreel pictures of a decade ago, seemed to hover in space just below the plane that released them...
Plenty of men and women come to Broadway bearing checkbooks. Bumptious or diffident, they hover on the fringe for a season or two. They go over the bumps and to the cleaners and back to their natural habitat, taking with them some deductible losses and dinner conversation. Roger Stevens
Flying Jeep. First successful test of a military jeep-helicopter was made by Philadelphia's Piasecki Aircraft Corp., one of several companies competing for an Army order. The Piasecki craft can safely fly and hover under bridges or between buildings because its two rotors, horizontally placed front and back inside the fuselage, are completely shielded. The enclosed rotors create air columns, which are the force that actually moves the helicopter. Piasecki plans to produce a 150-m.p.h. civilian model seating four passengers...
Asked whether it was dangerous to assume that the Communists want to end the cold war, Jones replied, "All life involves risk, but the Russians and the Chinese do not want to hover on a brink any more than...