Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large in Rome, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper characteristically wasted no time in getting to the heart of the matter in her interview with Gina Lollobrigida: "I've heard many arguments as to whether or not your focal point above the waist is larger and more shapely than Sophia Loren's." Gina replied promptly and "without batting an eyelash," Hedda reported: "I can assure you hers is larger." Concluded Hedda vaguely: "Loren's followers think Gina is too cold. Gina's fans say Loren puts too much stress on sex. It's pretty much the same...
...London, Sir Winston Churchill donned top hat and frock coat and turned up at the City's ancient Guildhall for the unveiling of a larger-than-life statue of himself by Sculptor Oscar Nemon. After one look he commented approvingly. But later, Author Gerald Hamilton, 67, a self-confessed "black sheep" of his family, interned in both World Wars for pro-German sympathies, announced that he had modeled for the body of the statue...
...Canadian medicos got together with their British cousins at the joint meetings of British, Canadian and Ontario medical associations, they found it hard not to be smug. (The British are not using the Salk vaccine at all, except in a limited test.) Admitted the Canadians gallantly: "With a larger number of children vaccinated, we might have got into trouble, too." Said Dr. Andrew J. Rhodes, one of Canada's top polio experts: "A safe and effective vaccine can be produced. [But] a great deal of work has yet to be done...
...turns out to be a straight chain of 39 amino acids arranged in a definite order. After satisfying themselves about the position of each link in the chain, Dr. Li and his teammates broke the chain in two, separating 28 of the links from the remaining eleven. The larger section proved to have all the desirable biological effects of the whole natural molecule. Better still, it lacks certain bad side effects...
...that "some of [the Marilyke dresses] are so cute we've put them in the Junior Department." Marilyke crusaders concentrate on evening dresses and bridal gowns; swimming suits are too unforeseeable - the same bathing suit might be acceptable on one girl and immodest on another girl several sizes larger. The big manufacturers, Fa ther Kunkel admits, are the long-range goal. "Going to the retailer," he explained, "is an attempt to create a demand." All Manila buzzed this week over a ban posted in every Roman Catholic girls' school against accepting any student who studies ballet. The reason...