Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands to keep them closed and prevent outright exposure above the waist-particularly since Ricci, to heighten the flat-chested flapper look, sent his mannequins out braless. Other houses, to achieve the same de-emphasis, went even farther, bound up their mannequins. "The American woman won't wear it that way," snorted Richard Blauner of New York's Suzy Perette, "because the American woman has grown. You have to make a place for the bust, not squash it down...
...medium of exchange and where women often rank below pigs on the social scale. For the primitive tribesmen of the interior, the concept of government does not exist; their only political guideposts are myth and magic. Head-hunting and cannibalism are still practiced in some areas. Some Papuan natives wear no clothes save for string, have no dishes or cooking utensils. They consider death the action of a wizard, often chop off the ends of their fingers as a sign of mourning...
...crutches. He hobbled into New York's Hospital for Special Surgery. Doctors tried a delicate spinal fusion. It failed, and Kennedy contracted a near-fatal staphylococcus infection. Another operation four months later was successful, and novocain treatments broke the cycle of muscle spasms. The President still must wear a quarter-inch riser in the heel of his left shoes and sneakers, and a small brace to support his back muscles...
...model, a student, had been found there by the ad agency of Leo Burnett). The ad promised that a hat "can make the rough, competitive road between you and the top a little easier to travel," warned that most executives "prefer to hire men who wear hats...
...John Kennedy, who traveled to the top without a hat, Bernard Salesky, president of the Hat Corp., had some advice. "We want to get Mr. Kennedy to wear hats," said Salesky. "He'll feel better in a hat, and he won't get head colds. A President shouldn't get head colds...