Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Special Relations. After summer-long consultation with its allies, the Kennedy Administration has reached "preliminary agreement" with enough nations to go ahead with MLF, which would take three years to build. West Germany is already pledged to match the U.S. offer to shoulder 30-40% of the initial $2 billion cost of building the 25-ship fleet force. Other NATO members likely to participate are Turkey, Greece and-barring a sharp swing to the left at home-Italy. Belgium and probably The Netherlands also will sit in on final dis cussions, starting in Paris Oct. 7, to settle details...
Secretary Lord Home is convinced that if Britain does reject membership in the NATO force, its exclusion may have political consequences as serious as its original decision to cold-shoulder the Common Market; inevitably, MLF will itself mark an important step toward military and political integration of Europe. Moreover, reasons Home, if West Germany is the principal U.S. partner in the undertaking, Washington may well develop a "special relationship" with Bonn that would leave Britain in even greater isolation...
First of all, the erroneous preconceptions of the Ivy League look must be erased. "Ivy League" refers to a bastardized version of the natural shoulder model, first produced on a mass scale about 1938. Prior to that time, only Brooks Brothers and J. Press promoted the natural shoulder. These stores derived the Ivy look from the five button suits with narrow lapels worn by fashionable late Victorians in the 1890's. Since 1950, the natural shoulder model has changed little with the exception of narrower lapels, shorter coats, and slimmer trousers...
There are two distinct models of the natural shoulder with gradations in between. The Warwick model, as one manufacturer calls it, has a high and not overly narrow lapel, a rounded bottom to the jacket, and the first button is set slightly above the pocket...
...however, quick to insist that the Environmental Health and Safety division would not abridge any researcher's academic freedom. "The statement doesn't mean we will be looking over his shoulder. We don't pass on the quality of his research, but only on the safety of the volunteer subjects...