Word: slit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black rubber "dry suit" (socalled because it kept water out) worn by U.S. Navy frogmen during World War II. Effective but cumbersome, the old suit required courses in calisthenics to put it on: one version had to be squirmed into through the neck hole, another through a single narrow slit in the front. Getting dressed too quickly resulted in overheating and perspiration. Appropriately enough, it was the company owned by famed French Underwater Explorer Jacques Cousteau (U.S. Divers Co.) that studied the problems of the dry suit and answered them in the marketplace with the wet suit...
Many Israelis recognize, of course, that their attacks may improve rather than impair Egyptian morale. In response to the raids, slit trenches are being dug around Cairo's airport; public buildings and monuments in the capital are being sandbagged, and a nighttime brownout is in effect. In recent weeks, army vacations were canceled and extra guards positioned around military installations. When Nasser dropped out of sight for several days, rumors swept Cairo that he had flown to Moscow to demand offensive weapons. The rumors were denied...
...either team, he showed see-through, midi-length chiffon evening dresses with minislips worn underneath. But it was Pierre Cardin who saved the day for leg fetishists with a series of long skirts that are almost as revealing as the mini, and even more alluring. The Cardin trick: a slit that runs from ankle to thigh, occurs either at the sides or at the back and front, and flashes skin in and out of view as the wearer moves, affording viewers the best peep show in town...