Word: nudist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officially prudish Soviet Union, where every word destined for print is eyed beadily for salaciousness as well as political error, these winy words had as much chance of escaping notice as a nudist at a fashion show. Worse yet, they appeared in T.S. 41, From an Intelligence Agent's Notebook, a shoot-'em-up spy story in the Schoolchild's Library series published by the staid D.O.S.A.A.F. (Volunteer Society for Aiding the Army, Air Force and Navy). "Check your children's library," thundered the Literary Gazette, official organ of the Soviet Writers' Union...
...naked body is not sexy; clothes make it so. There is no such thing as a sexy woman in a nudist camp...
Cold Turkey. "About the only sure way to stop this stuff is to set your store up in a nudist colony," said a Seattle superman, by now suspicious of just about any housewife who carries a big handbag, wears full skirts or wraps up in a fur coat on a warm day. In many U.S. cities, market cashiers havealso learned to watch for more elaborate devices for sneaking merchandise past the cash register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages...
...Diffeérence. In London, the social adviser of a nudist magazine, the Naturist, got a question: "I am, I believe, rather an oddity in nudist circles: a young, unmarried girl. My problem is that I think nudity is rather austere, and I feel I want to add some distinctive touches like jewelry, necklaces, earrings, and so on. What is the general view about this?", printed an answer: "Certainly, but anything too ostentatious will merely make you look undressed instead of naked...
...Supreme Court rejected a plea that nudism is a religion and therefore entitled to the protection of the Bill of Rights. The case was brought by a nudist group (which claimed that nudists "maintain high and strict moral standards") to challenge an Ohio anti-nudist...