Word: midriff
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...eyelike, in the navel. Madame Grès won top engineering honors for a bareback bikini that anybody can make at home with three or four pot holders and a long, thin necktie. For evening wear, Grès grew more conservative: one closely draped jersey dress covered the midriff completely, except for two good-sized diamond-shaped picture windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes...
...another party dressed as a Roman girl," she explained in a shout above the din, "but it's hard to do bumps in a toga." From another table top near by, a handsome young matron in a white Carmen Miranda outfit went right on wiggling her bare midriff as she confided that she had left her three children with her husband's parents. "Eight years I've been coming," she boasted, tossing off still another glass of whiskey. "Only once, when I was pregnant, did I think I'd have to miss it. Luckily, the baby...
...Electric Boat's Groton yard, a nuclear-attack sub of the Skipjack class was well along in construction. Her reactor and control-room sections were nearly completed. By chopping that 250-ft vessel in half and inserting a 130-ft missile bay in her midriff, she could be commissioned in two years as a Polaris submarine. But though he knew his scheme was technically possible, Raborn still had to convince himself that U.S. industry would work as hard as his new schedule required...
...glowering on the left would be Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, usually described in the tabloids as Hitler's girl friend. That would explain why she is standing, as Hitler did when he was not saluting, with her hands clasped just below her midriff. Unity shot herself in 1939 under still obscure circumstances and was invalided back home to England (the author says she was despondent over the outbreak of the war, but rumors were that she had been rejected by Hitler...
...President of the U.S., standing in the moving Rolls-Royce with King Paul of Greece early last week, clasped his hands over his midriff and laughed in wonderment at the evident warmth of the welcome that showered around him on the streets of Athens. "I think he's absolutely getting to love this," said a tired staffer. "He doesn't say so, but he'd have to be superhuman not to feel this way." In the third week of his 22,000-mile journey, Dwight Eisenhower indeed was having a wonderful time. In Iran, in Greece...