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Word: waists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several minutes, and finally the hesitant Chinese agreed to make the deal. The four men piled into the green Cadillac and followed the gray Dodge station wagon to a dark, deserted street, under the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. Following the General's directions, one undercover agent walked through waist-high grass into the vacant lot. Suddenly, he knelt down and said loudly: "This is the package; this is the package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

With Dinah and Deliverance, Reynolds hardly needs any more boosts. But his Cosmopolitan caper has given him a taste for prankish self-promotion. This fall he will appear on the cover of Esquire-in the raw again, but cropped above the waist. Burt will be looking down at himself, his mouth agape with disbelief. A headline asks: THE IMPOTENCE BOOM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Frog Prince | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...always been fashionable. She's freer in what she puts together." For all that, Smith, a Philadelphian who attended Parsons School of Design, works with "healthy bodies" -not necessarily black ones-in mind. His trademark is pants, full in the legs, high and tight in the waist and hips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Soul on Seventh Avenue | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...touched it. Doctors said it was nothing to get excited about. They did not mention another hopeful rumor. The way the story went, Wallace had unexpectedly moaned when a nurse stuck a hypodermic needle in his buttock. Excitedly she told doctors that the semiparalyzed patient had sensation below his waist. Doctors attached little significance to such reflex-like responses, and image-conscious Wallaceites chose to tell only the bowdlerized tale of a wiggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Vital Tonic | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

George Wallace, gaunt and subdued after almost eight weeks in the hospital with gunshot wounds, still paralyzed below the waist, made good his determination to get to Miami Beach and see what ideological leverage he could apply with his 373 delegates. It has been for him a grim and courageous convalescence. After appearing at a Mass in Maryland and reading the 23rd Psalm, Wallace flew in an Air Force jet supplied by Richard Nixon to Montgomery, Ala., where, seated in his wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Battle for the Democracy Party | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

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