Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter in Paris: lanky, dimpled Princetonian John Fairchild. 30. European director of his family's Fairchild Publications, Inc. Fairchild had scored a beat on the openings by predicting fortnight ago in his company's fashion-conscious Women's Wear Daily that "the 1958 woman will wear shorter skirts than last season . . . The chemise [sack] is here to stay, but with new slim or wider versions...
...favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering him. Maybe the girth might not be set right, and you have to adjust it. Sometimes I make my inside stirrup a notch or two shorter than the other. It makes no difference if I'm comfortable; my object is to finish good, not look good...
...first time since World War II, and unemployment had reached its highest level (1,200,000) since 1954. Privately, Erhard told friends that the German economy has paused for "a breathing spell." Confronted with the added threat of strikes by transport, coal and bank workers demanding shorter hours and more pay, the engineer of the German miracle had a typically German solution. Citizens, said Erhard, should "ponder whether the German people ought not to be prepared, instead of working less than a 45-hour week, to work one hour more...
...double-decked, pressurized behemoth, twice the size of a Super Constellation. The Reds claim that it is the world's fastest propeller airliner (more than 500 m.p.h.), can carry no passengers nonstop from Moscow to New York in ten hours, crowd in 220 passengers for shorter trips. Aeroflot has displayed a prototype, plans to have TU-114s in commercial operation within a year...
Gordon got off to a slow start and was last as the runners swung into the first turn. On the narrow Garden track, this is a nearly hopeless handicap, especially in the shorter races...