Word: underslung
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...alarm through every Middlesex village and farm" between Charlestown and Lexington, William Dawes was rousing the sleepy colonists between Boston and Concord. In recent American history, the Dawes name has been hitched to three things-a pipe, a plan and a peppery phrase. The pipe was a low, underslung affair that traveled the smoke along a 15-inch channel, the plan was a reparations agreement that helped put Germany on its feet in 1924-1929, and the phrase was "Hell and Maria...
...days of the underslung sweater and doubtful waistline are over and, in spite of heroic efforts to the contrary by glossy-covered fashion magazines, this year's waistline is evident, tiny, and belted for all it's worth...
...American Underslung, so named because its frame was hung from beneath its axles, making the all-aluminum body not much higher than the huge (41½ in.) wheels. Designed by Harry C. Stutz, whose later Bearcat was the sportiest roadster of the '20s, the four-cylinder Underslung cost about...
...plane and a Buck Rogers fantasy. It is long, sleek, round as a cigar, and fitted with a pair of stubby supersonic triangular wings. In its nose, the missile carries a sand-filled dummy warhead. In its tail, the Matador carries a jet engine for endurance and a huge, underslung rocket motor for take-off power. Inside the Matador, every inch of space is crammed with fuel and the humming electronic navigator that guides it to its target...
...reparations payments. His profanity ("Hell 'n Maria") and tart, impulsive manner caused comment at home, more so abroad. In England, as U.S. Ambassador, he staunchly refused to appear in the standard knee breeches,* turned up at court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark. A busy man all his life, he dabbled in projects from Chicago's 1933 World's Fair to California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, wrote music for his violin (his Melody is still available on records), was heard from in recent years only...