Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still undecided. But now, I'm just itching to pin up women's skirts." He called his new length the vivante (living) line-"a fashion for going out in the street." Although not as dramatic a break with tradition as the New Look, his vivante was spectacular enough to get rival Paris designers excited and make U.S. buyers tight-lipped and nervous, as they calculated the chances of its finding favor with the unpredictable girls back home...
Dead in Syracuse. Her very passion for audiences ("They tell me what to do") may have kept her so long from the spectacular success recently thrust upon her. If a play she was in closed on Broadway, Shirley was too restless to stay in town furthering her career by haunting producers' offices or being seen at smart cafes. Instead, she would hop a train, join the cast of one or another stock company. While less talented actresses might rocket overnight' to Broadway fame, Shirley was knocking them dead in Louisville or Syracuse. She was starred in the sticks...
...buttress London's confidence, Giskes produced "results" which the British would learn about from other sources. He planted in the Dutch press articles about spurious exploits, staged a spectacular explosion of a junk-laden barge in the Maas River at Rotterdam, and even returned some downed British flyers through Spain, secretly chaperoned by German agents...
...strongly the force of the ancient maxim: "Know your enemy." Enemies of the U.S. have started and lost two great wars largely because they miscalculated American strength and direction. On its part, through failure to know its enemy, the U.S. had suffered at Pearl Harbor one of the most spectacular and costly surprises of history. Neither the U.S. nor its enemies was likely to forget the value of foreknowledge...
...Princeton laboratory of Radio Corp. of America flows the New Jersey Turnpike, like a river of roaring chromium. It is carefully engineered, free of intersections, obstructions or distractions. It should be supersafe-but it is not. Ever since the turnpike was opened, it has been the scene of some spectacular crashes. Its very perfection can hypnotize drivers. Some of them speed half-conscious at 60 m.p.h., drifting dreamily off the gentle curves, or smashing into cars that have slowed down a little...