Word: primly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting); in Los Angeles. Her first job for a studio was draping garlands over elephants in a Cecil B. De-Mille circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise-shell glasses, Head costumed actors for more than 1,000 movies and created some fashion trends, including a minor 1930s craze after she wrapped Dorothy Lamour in a sarong for Jungle Princess...
...then, 12,700 now). It was a town with five churches, four Republicans, one pool hall and one whorehouse. Helms was a gigantic (6 ft. 5 in.) man who, for a $25 weekly wage, served as both police chief and fire chief. He and Ethel had a prim clapboard house three doors down from the police station. Their second child was born on Oct. 18, 1921. They named him Jesse Alexander...
...solemn. The set, so old now that it is encrusted with dust, is dominated by an official-looking horseshoe-shaped desk, behind which are chairs for the staff and a giant backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made up for by Today's new weatherman, Willard Scott, 46, a good old Virginia boy who has a more engaging grin than anyone else...
...side sat Walesa, dressed in baggy coat and sweater, flanked by a coterie of advisers. Among them were a number of thoroughly nonproletarian, politically minded intellectuals who have been advising the strikers. Other leaders of the Interfactory Strike Committee sat on rows of benches behind their negotiators, including the prim and bespectacled Anna Walentynowicz, a militant crane operator whose recent dismissal had helped spark the shipyard strike...
...drawback to date: swaying in side winds. The low weight and sophisticated design come at the expense of lateral stability. "We've got a long way to go." Concedes a BL official. Another problem could be inadequate development funds. Officials of the state-owned company are afraid that Prim Minister Margaret Thatcher, all too mindful of past government-sponsored white elephants like the Concorde, which has cost Britain and France $9 billion, will not provide money to continue testing. Engineers claim that without further government subsidies, the company may forfeit its lead in developing the first gas-stingy wonder...