Word: sheathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocko double-parked his red Ferrari outside Briggs Hall the next afternoon. Tubeless, who had been waiting, ran out and embraced him, a dream in her black knit sheath and white suede greatcoat. Her wavy blond hair tangled silkily with his fingers as she crushed against him. Her matchless face was burning with anticipation...
Nonarticular Rheumatism. A grab-bag category. Includes bursitis (inflammation of the sac that helps reduce friction around a joint), myositis (inflammation of muscle tissues), fibrositis (muscle inflammation extending to connective tissues), tenosynovitis (inflammation of a tendon sheath), and such oddities as psychogenic rheumatism. Treatment: aspirin, possibly combined with hormones such as cortisone, prednisone and prednisolone. Codeine helps kill the pain, and heat is helpful. In bursitis, surgery is sometimes used to scrape calcified deposits from the inside of a bursa. In psychogenic rheumatism no physical cause can be found for the patient's undeniable physical ills. Symptoms most often...
...covers the ball-and-socket bones in hips and shoulders and the bone ends in other joints, serves as a sheath for all muscles and joins them to the bones they operate, and is present in all organs and blood vessels...
...American woman is not likely to be pushed into any radical bathing suits next year, but she may have to be pulled into them. Reason: skintight sweater-a nd sheath-like suits will dominate the 1957 lines. As the first fall showings got under way in New York last week, it was plain that bathing-suit manufacturers had taken their style cues largely from Broadway: a trend to the My Fair Lady look, with Empire bosoms, the half-shell bra, wide shoulder straps, Gay-Nineties stripes, and knee-length pants that can be rolled up for swimming...
...sooner had Maria-dressed in a red lace decollete sheath-given correct answers to eight questions on Greek tragedy (thus qualifying for 640,000 lire, or $1,024) than thousands of televiewers and an excitable press began complaining of her "exuberant body." Harried program directors corralled Italy's top couturiers in an effort to camouflage Maria, who complained: "Can I help it if I'm not built like a telephone pole...