Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gandhinagar got a glimpse of both Tandon's traditional past and Nehru's wondrous future. Sitting in a specially built, galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which sold cottage-made, unrefined palm juice sugar...
...such new products as the high-backed "curvette" for women war workers, to ease the strain of long hours in factories. When the New Look came in and dressmakers talked blithely of the "natural bust," perhaps without a brassiere, Gossard quickly added: "The natural rounded bust, but with an uplift...
...practice of racial equality and tireless preaching on political and economic themes. "I don't think the Asian people care about Communism as Communism," he says. "Their very natures are opposed to it. But there are two great causes in which they believe passionately-national freedom and the uplift of Asian masses. If we Western democracies show that we strongly support these policies and will help achieve them, Asia will never go Communist...
...world may be a grim place, but British Novelist Joyce Gary is not the man to learn it from. Most of his favorite characters are as much in need of reformation and social uplift, if not outright restraint behind bars, as the characters of William Hogarth. Nonetheless, give or take the cautionary ends they usually come to, they enjoy themselves tremendously. Gary's distinction is that, almost alone among contemporary authors, he works in the tradition of Henry Fielding and the old English novel. With The Horse's Mouth, which completes a trilogy, more U.S readers...
...petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped by a linen rochet and a stiffly starched barbette of cambric . . ." Discarding this medieval costume, Monica donned the fashions of the '403, beginning with "an airy nothing" and an uplift bra. "Frankly, I was appalled...