Word: strapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, McCartney's spring '98 collection, her Chloe debut, features garments that could hardly be described as age-insensitive. There are exquisitely cut wide-leg pantsuits (one of her trademarks) and delicately patterned knee-length day dresses alongside lavender, lace-trimmed slip dresses, spaghetti-strap tops and diaphanous minis. McCartney's clothes bespeak a mature knowledge of flirtation. "We've done the feminist thing and beaten men down, and now we want to lure them back," McCartney, a tall, cheerful redhead, explains. "I think there's a danger in being too girly though...
Astronaut John Glenn used to dread going to NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. As a rookie pilot in the space agency's Mercury program, the 40-year-old Marine would periodically be required to strap himself into the tiny pod of a spacecraft simulator and wait for technicians to set it spinning in three dimensions at speeds exceeding 30 r.p.m. Using nothing more than a joystick, Glenn would have to bring the tumbling cockpit to heel. If he succeeded, he would continue in the program. If he failed, he could be bilged...
...Since 1992 his company has outfitted 50 military vehicles and multiplied sales nearly 100 times, from $50,000 a year to $4.4 million. In Bosnia last May the kits enabled U.S. Army vehicles to find and destroy 71 antipersonnel mines in two days. Parish says he has contracts to strap the kits onto an additional several hundred vehicles over the next five years...
...LOUIS: President Clinton today faces a task almost as daunting as a hostile job interview: He's going to St. Louis to tout "Welfare to Work," a struggling boot-strap program that's supposed to help 10,000 welfare recipients find jobs within five years...
...actors live long enough, they get to be in the TV remakes of their movies. Gregory Peck, 80, whose one-man autobiographical show will travel next to Boston, has taken on a role in Moby Dick for the usa Network. Peck will play Father Mapple, while Patrick Stewart will strap on Greg's old peg as Captain Ahab...