Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With robomb speed the news swept feminine Britain-hips will henceforth be streamlined, busts will again be budgetable. By edict of the nine middle-aged men who sit on the Corset Advisory Board, Britain's "austerity" corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace...
Nancy Astor, Britain's tart-tongued, opinionated, Virginia-born peeress-politico, first woman to sit in the House of Commons, announced that she would retire from 25 years of politics at term's end, confided, "I will not fight the next election because my husband does not want me to. ... I am bound to obey. Is not that a triumph for men?" Said, her husband, Lord Astor: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star. When she got into the House I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort of V-2 rocket...
Last week, soon after Private Kinman was promoted to technician fourth grade. Western Reserve University offered to see him through medical school. T/4 Kinman, who has had only three years of high school, was so stunned at the news that he had to sit down...
Scowlfully looking, the valiant prince, Diomedes, addressed him: "Buddy, sit thee in silence; obey my word as I bid thee...
...childhood with a divorced father and his serious attitude about his career have combined to make him cautious about women. He likes his drinks straight when work will permit but enjoys, more than anything else, watching movies. He was so dissolved by Going My Way that he had to sit halfway through another picture before he could leave the theater...