Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently, only show girls admitted to wearing false eyelashes, and they, poor things, are a notoriously shameless lot. Now, astonishingly, false eyelashes have been declared chic. And not only chic, but essential. Overnight, beauty salons have engaged eyelash "falseticians" who, for an average price of $5, will measure and trim the customer's falsies as well as instruct her on how to apply and remove them...
...much harder to get to sleep, and to stay asleep, than it was in the old days." There is indeed much more to stay awake for. Electricity makes it possible to read through half the night without straining the eyes and without getting up to trim a wick. The same electricity brings in round-the-clock radio programs, while TV competes to make the late show later...
Actually, neither Victoria nor Belva Ann expected to win; they were merely highly vocal suffragettes. Not so Maine's trim, white-haired Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Last week Maggie Smith, 66, confessed before the National Women's Press Club in Washington that she has no money, no time to campaign and no organization to speak of. There upon she announced saucily that she is going to run for the G.O.P. presidential nomination just the same...
...billion. First, many of the crash programs launched when Kennedy entered the White House have now been paid for, including the building up of the Army from eleven flabby divisions to 16 combat-ready units. Second, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's cost-reduction program is expected to trim hundreds of millions from the next budget. Finally, as one Pentagon official put it, "we are over the hump in the funding of the large missile systems...
...surf last week was Joseph ("Joey") Cabell, 25, a restaurant owner from Newport Beach, Calif., who summers in Hawaii. While 1,000 spectators watched from the beach, Cabell outclassed 349 contestants from as far away as Australia and Peru to win the International Surfing Championships. A trim six-footer (most top surfers are short) who has been at it since he was seven, Cabell keeps in shape during the winter by skiing on snow. The two, he says, are a lot alike: "You go as deep into the hook as possible, swinging to the bottom of the wave, then...