Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgeon, said Dr. Lewis, must create a pocket between the breast and the muscle of the chest wall to which it is normally attached. The uplift device is inserted in the pocket, with its Dacron backing placed against the muscle. Thus the tissues of the breast itself do not come into contact with any mesh or sponge material into which they could grow-only with the impermeable surface of the Silastic bag. A further advantage is that the soft tissue of the natural breast is outward; it feels normal to the patient and facilitates a doctor's examination...
...citizen might see a door across the way fly open, "and out comes Mrs. Babcock without any clothes on, pursued by her naked husband. Over the terrace they go and in at the kitchen door, as passionate and handsome a nymph and satyr as you will find on any wall in Venice...
...from its lows of mid-1962, has advanced 7% since Jan. 1. Last week, for the first time in 41 years, the Dow-Jones industrial average set a new record on every trading day. It rose 10.19 points in all, closing the week at 816.22. Pleasantly surprised that Wall Street's bull had crossed the 800 hurdle without even pausing for breath, many brokers are beginning to talk of a market at 900 before year's end-though they expect stocks to fall back for a rest before beginning that long pull...
...jobs in which men get relatively low pay-as clerks, secretaries, service workers, factory operatives, teachers. But the number of women in the more rewarding professions has risen 41% since 1950. The proportion of women among U.S. doctors has increased from 5½% five years ago to 6½%. Wall Street now has 1,800 women brokers-ten times as many as in 1946-and Madison Avenue has at least 600 women advertising executives, two-thirds of whom earn more than $10,000. One of the ad gals, Kay Daly, vice president of Revlon, Inc., earns $100,000 or more...
...sell more earrings. Often, the jeweler does not charge for the piercing, but insists that the girl buy a pair of twenty-dollar earrings before she leaves. After the potential piercee picks out her earrings, she sits on a stool with her back against the wall, while the piercer jabs a thick needle through the lobe into the cork he is holding behind it. The pain is minimal, and the results are often the best of the three schools, because the piercer is so experienced...