Word: skirtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
Last January his Lee Skirt Co. was turning out women's and misses' skirts at a good clip of 400 dozen a week. By last week, Lee Skirt had upped production more than 200%-1,250 dozen a week. U.S. department stores were taking the entire output. Retailing mostly at $1.99 and $2.95, the company's all-wool and rayon skirts are a bargain that few competitors can approach...
...what about U.S. schools? Most of the visitors had found the work there much easier than at home. Therefore, said Czechoslovakia's Jaroslava Moserova, "Americans cheat far less in examinations. At home, everyone cheats and everyone helps. You write notes on your handkerchief or pin notes to your skirt. But when I go back, I'm going to study without cheating...
...your shoulders back, hold up your head, and don't be ashamed to show the world that you are shaped as a woman ought to be." But all her life she remained ashamed, awkward and uncontrollably shy. Now she was 41, "a big colourless woman in a brown skirt and a high-necked blue sweater. The shoulders were square, the neck long and firm, the legs straight and big, like pillars...
...Trois-Rivires (pop. 50,000) up in arms. The twelve-year-old city by-law was clear-cut. It forbade bathing with "one or a few persons of the opposite sex," decreed that "persons of the female sex must wear a bathing suit of opaque material . . . including a skirt which reaches close to the knees; they must also wear a suitable brassiere." In practice, most Trifluvians had ignored the by-law and its penalties (forty dollars or two months in jail). On the city council there was talk of doing away with the anachronistic ordinance...