Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crops, the annual cloth ration has shrunk to as little as 2½ ft. per person in some regions-"just enough," said one refugee, "to patch our rags." So severe is the shortage, according to the official Peking People's Daily, that "clothes hospitals" are making "short-sleeved shirts out of long-sleeved shirts, a vest out of a short-sleeved shirt, and underwear out of a vest...
...insisted upon 2⅜ in.-and at that the Navy balked. Only the Army seemed agreeable to any specification. The services met, disagreed, kicked the question upstairs to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Infuriated, McNamara ignored the services, resolved the issue with a swift decision of his own: officers' shirt collars must be ½ in. high...
...vibration gets through to the cameras, the pictures show incredible detail In stereoscopic shots, everything seems to take on new clarity in three dimensions-boltheads, men's faces, footprints in the dirt. Said one photo expert, "You can't quite see the pencils in the guys' shirt pockets. The airborne cameras are usually long gone before anything at the target can be hidden away. The plane flies faster than the sound of its own approach and it is too low to be spotted by radar' Men on the scene do not know that their pictures have...
Finally, Fletcher said, "I see nothing wrong with abortion." Out loud, practically nobody favors abortion to prevent life, he said, "but a lot of this is hypocrisy: look what happens when Mr. and Mrs. Pious Stuffed-Shirt discover that their own daughter is in trouble...
...expanded steadily but haphazardly, and today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line. Mailing labels are typed and pasted by hand, and requests for catalogues are filed in shirt boxes. Pay is so modest that each change in the federal minimum-wage law has required an adjustment of the whole salary schedule...