Word: sewn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...discipline more astonishing. For every struggling, prancing, stick-swinging, tail-twitching majorette in the nation, there are about too or so others who would give every Bobby Darin record they own to get on the squad. The searing competition carries into home and family. Costumes have to be sewn or bought (for as much as $100). Many mothers are as ferociously competitive as stage mothers. They preside over home practice sessions and grooming, chauffeur the girls to rehearsals, form auxiliary committees to raise money. Says Mrs. Charles Gehm, whose daughter twirls with the University of Miami's Hurricanettes: "Some...
...Winslow F. Burhans met the police-escorted motorcade at the city limits, later honored the colorfully draped Fitzjohn at a banquet attended by 200 of Hagerstown's most prominent citizens, including 30 Negro couples. Also gracing the town's first mixed social event in memory: a hand-sewn Sierra Leone flag quickly Rossed together by the mayor's wife-an appropriate gesture in an area just 25 miles from Frederick, Md., where Stonewall Jackson spared the old grey head of Flag Waver Barbara Frietchie...
...describes it easily as "two basic movements, a swinging from side to side and a style of truckin' done in half time, with infinite variations." At any rate, the stomp was on and the handkerchiefs were out. Skirts, which are worn sin-tight at the Palladium, were double-sewn at the seams. Up to 350 panting pachangueros crowded into the hall's weekly dance classes...
...Ipsa Loquitur. A.M.A. studies show that two-thirds of malpractice claims originate from in-hospital incidents. Sponges occasionally are sewn into patients' stomachs (a group of California hospitals recently reported a run on "lost sponges"-18 in a single year). Obstetricians have been known to deliver one baby and quit, leaving its twin behind. Surgeons have removed a kidney only to discover that one is all the patient had. A more common cause: transfusions of mismatched blood, which kill about 3,000 patients a year in the U.S., injure thousands more. In such cases, where human error is clearly...
...ambassador's neck and plonked off the Homburg of the ambassador from Guinea. From a MATS Convair stepped Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba, 35, wearing his customary blue suit and brown Italian loafers. He gazed at a blue, gold-starred Congo flag that had, all too obviously, been hand-sewn that morning, and a Marine Corps band struck up Stars and Stripes Forever-the commission assigned to write a Congolese national anthem has not yet come up with a tune...