Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Farrah Fawcett-Majors, move over ... way over. Trim may be in almost everywhere, but when Chicago's big Carson, Pirie, Scott department stores staged a fashion show for what the industry delicately refers to as "half-size" women last week, there was ample evidence the company was on to something big. Five sturdy models-two professionals, three recruits-displayed summer wear in sizes from 16½ to 18½ (available sizes go up to 24½). Said Carson's fashion director Ardelle Tuma: "These women have been ignored as customers who want to buy fashionable clothes. There...
...ensure repeat sales, the store provided free sundaes for those 350 ladies who turned up. In a half-hour, they consumed 16 gallons of ice cream, four gallons of chocolate, butterscotch, strawberry and pineapple toppings, plus quantities of chopped nuts and whipped cream. Er, Farrah, maybe you had better move over a little bit more...
Israel's supporters, and perhaps also its Arab antagonists, have ample reason to hope that Weizman's judgment will prove correct. For if a Begin government is unwilling or unable to negotiate reasonably with those Arab leaders who seem ready to move toward peace, the fearful alternative is another era of turmoil?and perhaps bloodshed ?in the Middle East...
...which a group of wealthy alumni subsequently chose to override the committee's wishes. When it became known that the committee planned to select Robert Peck, athletic director at Williams College, several big contributors to the University athletic program told members of the administration they would not tolerate the move. Peck, who had helped make Williams a small-college athletic power while still designing the school's excellent intramural program, was certainly a desirable candidate. But he did not suit the taste of many of Harvard's biggest athletic boosters. For his admirable commitment to maintaining "the proper role...
...chains tucked into their back pockets so that the keys dangled outside, and jingled when they walked. Tom did not understand why they wore their keys that way. It seemed like an easy way to lose them. Few people there danced, and those who did dance did not move much. Tom noticed that if they danced too hard their clothes became disheveled. Shirts became untucked and no longer looked so form-fitting. Most of the people continually circulated, a beer in one hand always giving them a reason to be wherever they were. Drinking was always a legitimate activity. Other...