Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's "austerity" corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed the new order in corsets: it would uplift both midriff and morale...
...threw a rock and it bounced off'n him like rubber," said Orville. "If somebody gets ate up I reckon you'll believe it." But a few days later the Johnson children were ordered back to school, this time by a skeptical county judge...
...over the target, the Japs had come to and begun to fight. But only one Superfort went down; a Jap Tony (single-engined fighter) crashed into its tail and fell with it. Another B-29 crash-landed at sea with engine trouble, but the crew got out in rubber rafts and was picked up by Navy rescuers within 24 hours. Said Rosie O'Donnell: "One of the easiest missions I've been...
...World. In London, Mrs. Mavis Tate, M.P., accused the British Board of Trade president of wanting to "eliminate women and children," demanded immediate relief of the rubber-nipple shortage...
...modest. He spent most of his first 33 years on his father's farm, then rose to prominence in politics through rubber-stamp party regularity, a lot of luck and a sharp eye for the main chance. He has none of the flowing pretensions that many Senators wear like togas. After his nomination in Chicago he reiterated: "I'm a Jackson County Democrat, and proud...