Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...item both upset our stomach and gave us a headache, we naturally dropped two Alka-Seltzer tablets in a glass of water. While they fizz, we will call to your attention the fact that we have been the agency of record for Miles Laboratories for 40 years...
Generous, tailored or tight, slacks are the fastest growing item in milady's wardrobe across the U.S., with 30 million pairs sold last year v. only 6,000,000 a decade ago. The pants boom has brought a revival of the culotte-pants cut to hang like skirts-to the point where designers are now making culottes in all sizes and fabrics, including culotte Bermudas and knee-length chiffon hostess models. So popular have dressy slacks become for evening entertaining that women guests are often trapped by a kind of fashion one-upwomanship: they wear dressy frocks and high...
...Bids are often padded by as much as 15% to 20% on incentive contracts in which the manufacturer is rewarded for savings he can show by producing the item for less than the bid price...
...loincloth is now derided as mtu hivi hivi -a wild man. The men like dark jackets, preferably dinner jackets, and the bigger the satin lapels the better. The clothes campaign has had fair success with East African women: despite the dearth of rain, the ladies' most popular item is a used raincoat-with nothing underneath...
...rules if it wanted the aid. Finally, a few weeks ago, the Guineans quietly signed on the dotted line-so quietly, in fact, that no announcement was made at all in Conakry newspapers until the U.S. embassy protested and then the news was buried in a one-paragraph item in the back pages...