Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armored vest protects against small, low-velocity fragments, is lighter than Korean war armor, better designed for protection at vital throat areas...
...Walston is superbly funny as the Ivy-League Mephistopheles. Dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit and buttoned-down shirt, tie, coat, and vest, he looks amazingly like a Yalie. And it must be somewhat refreshing to have our suspicions confirmed after all these years that Daddy is a Yale...
Dynamic Publisher Chateaubriand, 66, usually selects the art himself. An initiate of the Manhattan art world recently provided a view of Chato in action: "He stood before David's great portrait of Napoleon. Slowly his hand went up and rested in his vest. Then, quick as a flash, he whirled and said, 'If I had a revolver in my hand, this painting would no longer be yours...
...ginger ale in Chicago's Sherman Hotel last week. "Everybody has a name tag on him. You look and see the name and you greet him, say, 'How ya doin!' " Cook's extra big "Keep Smiling" button flashed gaily from his purple and gold vest; the 51-year-old utilities company employee from Beechview, Pa. considered how glad he was to be there, he and Harriett, hitting it off just great with 35,000 friendly people from all over the world. The occasion: 41st annual convention of Lions International, world's biggest and fastest-growing...
Bowing slightly from the high waist of his striped trousers, the tailor with the tape modestly introduced himself as the Scott and Hanbury representative and asked who was next. Vag deferred. The first face, visibly impressed by the lapels on the tailor's vest, or rather waistcoat, admitted that he was next, and walked uncertainly into the fitting room...