Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capacity equaling 2,000,000 Ibs. of ice daily, will lower the temperature by ten degrees. To replace the backbreaking wooden chairs on the convention floor, the Democratic National Committee has latched onto 2,500 softly cushioned seats from the defunct Paradise Theater-"Thus," says a party publicity puff, "enabling our delegates to concentrate more intently on the very important decisions under consideration...
...Givenchy's balloon-like cocktail dresses. But wherever gores and gussets were discussed by experts, Christian Dior's name led all the rest. Mindful of the dismal failure of 1954's sad-sack flat look, Dior had turned out a collection of slinky new gowns that puff up the bosom, pinch down the rump, swoop low around the neckline. Exulted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "Dior has designed a collection for the men this time. The kept lady look. The undressed look...
...space ship from earth were to land on a planet of antimatter, it would I vanish in a puff of energy. But if a galaxy made of antimatter were to collide with an ordinary galaxy, their stars might not annihilate each other. In the vast emptiness of space, even within a galaxy, direct collisions between stars are extremely unlikely. But dust and gas between the stars would certainly come in contact. Each particle of normal matter would annihilate a particle of antimatter. The result would be a great increase in brightness. No such glowing collision has been observed, says Professor...
Finisterre's red-topped dacron spinnaker ballooned tautly in a 20-knot northeast wind, and her seven-man crew hand-rode her lovingly to catch every puff of wind as she bowled past Bermuda's St. David's Head at 9:10 a.m. one day last week. Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessary-the broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally...
...Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito, rotundly resplendent in his dress uniform, asked Black if he might try one of the banker's fancy Corona Corona cigars. After the Yugoslav dictator started to puff away, Black looked at him and drawled: "Now you look like a capitalist." Tito roared, and everyone relaxed...