Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wasp-waists...
...types can be bred. There will be long-tongued bees to suck nectar out of red clover flowers (only bumblebees can get it now). Cold-resisting bees will pioneer northerly regions. Efficient pollinators will be developed to fill the needs of orchardists. Exotic strains, such as giant bees and wasp-fighting bees from Asia, may contribute new, valuable qualities to the U.S. bee population...
Some fashion designers proposed hobble skirts, hoop skirts and skirts that flapped about the ankles. Some went in for unpadded shoulders; others padded hips. Some placed their trust in the back bustle, side bustle and the wasp-waist corset, whose constrictions in the last century had been a mainstay of jokesmiths and had made its wearers subject to fainting fits and worse...
...wishes or even the shapes of their subjects, panted to regain the attention, if not the prestige, which they had lost during the war. Almost before anyone could say haute couture, such Parisian newcomers as Christian Dior were making a great to-do about squeezing waists into wasp lines and padding out hips-and the revolution...
Died. Margaret ("Marge") Hurlburt, 32, onetime Ohio schoolteacher and wartime WASP who last March piloted a Navy Corsair fighter to a women's international speed record (337.635 m.p.h.); when her plane crashed while stunting in a July 4 air show; in Decorah, Iowa...