Word: voila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baggy jeans are winning converts-but not everywhere First it was la cigarette: women virtually had to lie down so that they could pull the stiletto-slim jeans over their hips. A few deep inhalations to close the zipper and, voila, skintight denim pants. Now the French are going in the opposite direction, and their latest innovation may undo some of the psychic damage that la cigarette inflicted on Weight Watchers dropouts. Baggy jeans have arrived...
...posted walkie-talkie equipped guards at each exit, but Institute officials believed they had a way to exploit SDS's vigilance. By using a decoy, they could divert the crowd's attention to a side gate, then whisk McNamara away before anyone knew what was going on. Voila. Worth a try, at any rate...
...seeing less and less of the Jesse Bolt she knew and loved, more and more of the corpulent Memphis shaker. She tried to understand, and one day made the mistake of saying she'd give anything to understand --within the earshot of Danny O'Day. He said, "Anything?" and voila, she had cut off her long brown hair and dyed it black and was Miss Elvis Presley...
...modestly): Voila! To affairs...
...visitors did it by winning four of the six singles matches--two after being down match point--and cruising home with a pair of victories in the doubles competition. All in all, an incredible total of eight sets came down to tiebreakers, and the men in red--voila--stole six of them...