Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-heel wearer soon learns what most women already know: heels may look good, but they are not easy to wear-at least initially. Men must take shorter steps than most of them are used to and be careful not to stumble while climbing steps or catch their heels riding escalators. "It's a whole new trip," says Maurice Boucher of L.A.'s Vibrations Boot Parlor. "Men have never had to think about changing their style of walking or sitting or even driving a car." To ease the transition, many store owners recommend that their customers wear...
...Come to Cyprus next Monday,' " an Israeli diplomat explained later. "She was putting forward a concept, an idea." But the concept-direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt-has become a familiar one since the Six Day War, and Cairo quickly dismissed it. In a second, shorter speech in Alexandria last week Sadat asked: "Can anyone negotiate while his land is occupied? Did the U.S. negotiate with Japan after Pearl Harbor?" That left the principal Middle East adversaries-Egypt, Israel, Russia and the U.S.-all casting about to redefine their roles...
...leaped four inches higher than her own considerable height of 5 ft. 1 11 in. to set a world record. But she is a constant worrier-about keeping up with the housework, about not spending enough time with the baby-and it sometimes affects her performances. Almost a foot shorter than Ilona is Olga Korbut, who weighs only 84 Ibs. She is the smallest member of a Russian gymnastic team that as usual looks exceptionally talented. Unusually, so does the U.S. women's squad...
...friends in the first row typified most of the crowd--patient, and for the most party happy to be in the Garden for such an historic event. They'd been assured the band was coming, and they believed. What became a three hours wait, seemed so much shorter...
...able to trudge the length of the Chisholm Trail-one of the three main cattle routes of the old Southwest-or retrace the exodus of the Mormons from Illinois to Salt Lake City. In addition to these long trails, the 1968 act also provided for a number of shorter paths within easy reach of cities; most are under ten miles long. Thirty-three of these National Recreation Trails are now available to hikers, as well as to horseback riders and bicyclists...