Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gleaming white uwe, a kind of nightshirt decorated with lace, Nigeria's delegate made quite a sight on the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly. And his words made quite a stir among the assembled delegates. "I am losing confidence in the great powers," cried chubby Jaja Wachuku, lambasting both East and West for failing to end their quarrels. "They are climbing from the pedestal of greatness to the pedestal of insanity. We expect leadership from them; they give us destruction. We expect wisdom from them; they give us lack of knowledge. We expect objectivity from them; they present...
...nation's character, like a man's, can be read in the lines on its face. The roads that lace the U.S.'s 110,000 hamlets, towns and cities into a single organism have transformed a remote, leisurely agricultural society into a compact, highspeed industrial civilization that is in constant pursuit of mobility...
Last week Peter Pan Foundations, Inc. was proudly claiming to have achieved a breakthrough-a bra without any seams at all. The secret is in a new drip-dry Chemstrand nylon fiber, which, once molded, holds its shape forever. To make the bra, the lace cloth is laid over a metal replica of a well-shaped bosom. Another form, hollowed out like an Iron Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material...
Then Mr. Ben tossed his crowning achievement, a trifle of black feathers, lace, rhinestones and a soupçon of warmed-over custard. Two ladies clawed away for life. "Ladies, please," begged Mr. Ben, rounding off his numbers, "that is a $475 hat." The littler lady finally let go, holding back her tears...
...first night in Paris, Jackie was dressed, coifed and made up as elaborately as any princess. When she emerged from her bedroom at the Palais des Affaires Etrangeres, she was magnificent in a narrow, pink-and-white straw-lace gown and a swooping 14th century hairdo with a fake topknot. Even John Kennedy, a man who is not notably attentive to the nuances of fashion, was frankly impressed. "Well," he said, "I'm dazzled...