Word: surest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black dress down the runway at last summer's Paris collections that not only acknowledged the bosom but exposed it almost entirely. American buyers looked at the peep show cautiously, concluded it was a gag, not a trend. They were wrong. Women saw in the new decolletage the surest way to a man's eye and promptly began pulling the dresses off the racks. January's Paris collections took a deep breath and plunged to deep C level. The bosom is not only in; it is just about...
Wellington's Bugle. The man behind the world's biggest such babel is Curator G. Robert Vincent, 63, whose faith in sound-as-scholarship rests on the idea that "the voice is the surest index to character." Vincent got his idea back in 1913, when at the age of twelve he thrust a cumbersome Edison machine under Teddy Roosevelt's mustache and begged him to speak. In his oddly manful squeak, T.R. advised all boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound...
Practically Pygmies. U.C.L.A. was not even rated among the nation's top 20 teams in preseason polls. The biggest man on the squad, 6-ft. 5-in. Center Fred Slaughter, is practically a pygmy by today's stratospheric standards. The club's surest shooter (22 points per game), Guard Gail Goodrich, has to stand on tiptoe to prove that he is really 6 ft. 1 in. like the program says. The closest thing U.C.L.A. has to a legitimate All-America candidate is 6-ft. 2-in. Guard Walt Hazzard, who averages 18 points a game, thrills fans...
...FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. Rivera confounded capitalists and Communists alike with his preposterous stories and visionary murals, but Biographer Wolfe wisely takes the artist's exuberant imagination as the surest cue to the man and his work...
...bring pressure on owners of the unsound lodgings the committee advocated state legislation authorizing the courts to designate the city as rent receiver in-place of any landlord who falls to comply with the housing code. New York recently enacted such a rent law, considering it the surest way to force compliance with the code...