Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discotheques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than...
Even before Australia II arrived at Newport, its white hull swathed in a modest blue-green canvas skirt, word had spread of the challenger's hidden, revolutionary keel design. The New York Yacht Club tried mightily, ignobly, and in vain to have the foreign boat disqualified. Meanwhile, the wonder from Down Under and its gritty crew blitzed the largest foreign field ever assembled in Newport-six other boats, from France, Italy, Britain, Canada and Australia. In two months the Australians won 48 of the 54 times they set sail. And yet, pitted against the New York Yacht Club...
...oblivious to a Pennsylvania group a few feet away carrying signs advocating peace in Central America. In the shade of an old beech tree near by, a band of antinuclear activists stood in a circle, hands linked, eyes closed, as a middle-aged woman in braids and a long skirt led them in prayer...
Like the poodle skirt, bobby-sox and d.a. haircuts, drive-ins are a thing of the past. To try to revive them now would be like restoring Grandma's radio in place...
...blackout would immediately cost the district some $500 million in lost sales, half the season's total, were put aside. The latest estimate is that losses ultimately will reach only about $30 million. "This is a very resilient industry," said Eli Elias, executive director of the New York Skirt and Sportswear Association. "I guarantee you, in 30 days you'll never know there was a blackout...