Word: snugness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this conclusion after measuring his own head at the Coop. While most seniors defer to head professionals, he just grabbed a tape measure and did it on his own. To his horror, he discovered that his head falls between two hat sizes. "I could either get a nice snug cap and get a headache or get the bigger one and have it falling over my eyes," he says. "I chose the more comfortable, less fashionable...
Kors is responsible for this spring's essential look--loose-fitting cargo pants topped with snug, square-neck or boat-neck tees...
With that windfall, Baekeland, his wife Celine (known as "Bonbon") and two children moved to Snug Rock, a palatial estate north of Yonkers, N.Y., overlooking the Hudson River. There, in a barn he converted into a lab, he began foraging for his next big hit. It wasn't long before the burgeoning electrical industry seemed to say just one word to him: insulators...
...Herbert's interest inpolitics. Yet it does possess a strong strain ofhumor, even if it's found mainly on the backsidesof more depressing themes. In "What Our Dead Do,"Herbert hazards that the dead "hunt for jobs /whisper the numbers of lottery tickets," thensomberly notes that we imagine them "snug as theburrow of a mouse." Surely that comparison makesthe daily grind of errands and ambition seem likedeath. In one of his most priceless prose poems,"The Wolf and the Sheep," Herbert has the wolfexplain to the sheep that he is about to devourthat, "You have no idea how silly...
...Signified by a low waist, tight torso and straight leg, this gender-neutral garment builds bridges. According to Diesel, the jeans deliver consumers from baggy-jean-blah to snug-Euro-style. Female shoppers, raving about the loose comfortable feel, have done everything but hold the Diesel distributors hostage for this designer denim...