Word: upswept
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...bright September Sunday of 1943, John Basilone got his welcome home. At the estate of Doris Duke Cromwell, 30,000 assembled to greet Hero John-mayors, judges, ex-Governors and ex-Senators, and a movie star with upswept hairdo, who kissed John Basilone on the mouth. His picture stood in all the shop windows, alongside General MacArthur's. A portrait of John Basilone was hung in Town Hall...
...Upswept hairdos may harm the future generation...
This flout in the face of fashion was, of course, made by a doctor: Dr. Milton Plotz of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine. In the current American Journal of Diseases of Children he reports the case of a mother with 1) upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch...
...ground, the P-59, needing no clearance for a propeller, presents an odd, squat profile with an upswept rear end (to keep out of the way of the hot blast from the jets). Ground crewmen give the plane a wide berth at its takeoff; anyone within 20 feet of the jets would be burned to a crisp. But in the air, the fuel is burned so completely in the combustion chamber that the jets show no flame, even at night. The openings in front of the plane through which air is sucked into the motor posed a problem: they also...
...faintly haughty, uptilted face and alabaster gaze were framed between a velvet choker and a brave upswept chignon. Her manner and her clothes were proud, yet just a shade on the bold side. She was seen everywhere-at fashionable parties and on bathing beaches, in books and magazines, especially Life, and in hundreds of thousands of real-life copies. She was the Glamor Girl of the Gay Nineties, the unforgettable Gibson Girl...