Word: seaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carnival song-and-dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause by improvising bits of the funeral...
...each day. "But," he added, "I don't want to leave the impression that I feel the way I did when I came in." Then, by way of illustration, the President pulled up his blue knit sports shirt and let the whole world inspect the ugly twelve-inch seam in the flesh under his right rib cage where doctors had removed his gall bladder and a kidney stone...
...Bien Jolie's flowered-net version ($11) and Warner's "The Body" ($12.50), are sheer enough to read through, small print included. As for girdles, most, like Gossard's Lycra net ($4) and Formfit's hip-rider ($4), offer low-down control in only a seam or two: the rest is up to the customer...
...structure of General Education, the traditional three-way division of learning could be usefully replaced by a simpler division into two parts. For our purposes the line of division lay within the social sciences where the joining of history and the behavioral sciences has always left a visible seam...
When two police cars pulled up to the gas station-residence several minutes later, the officers asked the band to leave, but did not seam to guess their mischievous intent, reported Edward H. Flitton III '64, manager of the band...