Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broken legs are no laughing matter for ladies in their 70s, and Dame Margaret Rutherford, 75, hasn't chortled once. The grand old actress fractured a thigh when she tripped on a rug in her hotel room in Rome, and had to be flown to London for an emergency operation. Dame Margaret is mad as a wasp about the whole thing, said Husband Stringer Davis. "She had been swimming every day near Rome, and is furious that the fall has put an end to that for the time being...
With male attention riveted on thigh-high boots and textured panty hose, women have apparently decided that hats are the thing to bring their neglected faces back into focus. "Besides," says Jet Setter Louise Savitt, "no man likes to dance with a woman with cold ears." There is not the slightest danger of cold ears in this year's status-fur hats, be they Adolfo's sables, Mr. John's chinchillas or Halston's minks. "The new styles are great," says Best-Dressed Betsy Theodoracopulos, "and wearing them cuts down on visits to the hairdresser." Since...
Dressed in a dusty fatigue shirt, faded green trousers and lightweight, high-top sandals, Che caught a bullet in his left thigh as he advanced toward the government troops; another bullet knocked his M-l semiautomatic carbine right out of his hands. In Che's rucksack, the Rangers found a book entitled Essays on Contemporary Capitalism, several codes, two war diaries, some messages of support from "Ariel"-apparently Castro-and a personal notebook. "It seems," read one recent notebook entry in Che's tight, crisp handwriting, "that this is reaching...
...familiar problem of polar kneecap. The surest bet seems to be boots, and all across the country women are besieging stores for this year's rage: high-rise stretch vinyl or synthetic-leather boots that pull on and off like gloves, and reach all the way up the thigh...
With their lurid titles-My Bare Lady, Caught in the Act, Thigh Spy, and Love Is a Four-Letter Word-nudies are featured at more than 400 theaters in the U.S. Dallas has five such houses, Boston four, Detroit eleven, Los Angeles twelve and Manhattan 16. The growth of the nudie drive-ins has created a new menace on the highways: near Dallas, one drive-in owner was ordered to build a view-obstructing wall after three passing motorists careened off the road while gawking at the girlies. Estimates of the yearly haul from these ventures in the skin trade...