Word: upswept
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This quick-mixed success is the work of Milton A. Holmes and his wife Gladys L. Both are 49, both experts. Milt is a grey-haired, double-chinned efficiency expert; Gladys, a cooking expert. Her greying hair in soft upswept waves is matched by grey rims on her slightly upswept glasses...
...woman is stately Sara Pelham Speaks, who will be 41 on Election Day. An attractive Harlem politico with an upswept hairdo, she is a criminal lawyer, wife of a Harlem physician, mother of a four-year-old son. She has been in politics almost all her life. Her father ran a Negro newspaper in Washington, D.C. Last week the Harlem Republican Organization made her its nominee...
...nearby Cherry Point, is a graduate of Vassar and was working in the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum when she joined the Corps. Private Edna Thomas, now an aerial gunnery instructor, was an elementary schoolteacher in Savonburg, Kans. 1st Lieut. Virginia O'Meara, who wears her greying hair upswept, was an assistant scriptwriter in Hollywood before she started her own insurance business in Bayside...
Corsair (Vought F4U). Familiar to aircraft spotters because of its upswept wings, the Corsair was built and is used as a carrier fighter but it is also a era ~k land-based aircraft, so used in the main by the Marines. About as fast as anything in the air, it has great high-altitude performance, is also (because of its high horsepower) versatile enough to carry heavy bombs, torpedoes, or a belly tank...
...still buy chic dresses for 5,000 francs and up without ration coupons. Woolen suits, silk nighties and stockings bring fancy black-market prices. But only the darlings of Nazis, grafters, collaborationists can afford such luxuries. The others wear plain, frequently remade suits and dresses, set off by towering upswept hairdos and elaborate hats. Tulle is one of the few unrationed materials and it is used plentifully for hats...