Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lessons, she shed her Neapolitan dialect for a clearer Italian. She posed for more pictures-semi-covered with a bath towel, twirling an eel like a two-foot hot dog, being lassoed by Indians, having her brassière adjusted by a male volunteer, going to Mass, holding her skirt so high that the Italian police confiscated the entire edition of the magazine that ran the picture on its cover...
...Nights with Cleopatra and her subtropics in Woman of the River. But the great moment of that early phase of her career came when she played a sponge diver in Boy on a Dolphin. Following the custom of native girls in the Greek islands, she lifted her skirt toward her hips, tucked it between her legs, and pinned it in back to her belt...
...Lake Michigan stands big-shouldered Chicago, a gambling man, a gandy dancer, a latter-day John Bunyan whose self-conscious gazes into his mirror reflect the pride and simplicity of the U.S. heartland. There is intellectual Boston, a lady of quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with an infusion of wild Irish blood into her Yankee veins. In the bayous of Gulf Coast Texas stands Houston, a young, lusty oilman with a fat wallet, unfenced-in tastes and opinions that tend to be conservative...
Tassell, said Sheppard, "denied absolutely" that he had closed his factory for a week just to make Mrs. Kennedy's India wardrobe, and "feebly" denied that he had made up a special version of his Beauvais embroidered ball gown with flowers just on the long skirt. Explained Sheppard: "Orders from Mrs. Kennedy are accompanied usually by a polite note asking the store or manufacturer please not to tell." But somebody "is always sure to make somebody promise not to breathe a word, and that somebody is hot on the telephone to Mata Hari in a few minutes...
...oilmen, the line will reduce the higher costs of shipping by sea and will tap growing markets in cities that present pipelines skirt. It will also have more immediate effects on the U.S. economy. The builders will order 500,000 tons of steel (for about $100 million) and $100 million worth of pumps, generators and other finished gear...