Word: skimpier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...save on costs, some farmers are reducing their herds. In addition, they are buying less expensive grades of animal feed than they normally use. Partly as a result of these skimpier diets, U.S. dairy herds in 1973 produced 3.5 billion fewer lbs. of milk than during the previous year, and despite rising consumer demand milk production is expected to drop another 3 billion Ibs. in 1974. The inevitable result: rising prices...
...trouble getting diesel fuel for their trucks and harvesting machines. Diesel-fuel scarcities are prodding the managers of North Carolina's big trucking industry to consider route reductions, which could slow deliveries of products as diverse as machine parts and oranges. As stocks of petroleum-based plastics get skimpier, dozens of small factories in the Midwest and New England are closing...
Shorts? Absolutely. And not just the ordinary old ho-hum sportswear type, but a brand-new outrageous variety, cut higher, tighter and altogether skimpier than anything Ruby Keeler ever kicked in (see THE THEATER). No longer fashioned of sturdy standards like denim and broadcloth, the current crop is made of flashier stuff-mink and monkey fur, silk and satin, calfskin, chiffon and cut velvet. The accepted generic term, hot pants, lends the style the leering inference of an adolescent joke. But short shorts are no joke; they are serious business, and women in major European and U.S. cities are currently...