Word: welting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doing the most standing in these days are jeans-a term that has come to mean any pants that are close-fitting, slash-pocketed and welt-seamed. Not the ordinary old-style, head-'em-off-at-the-gulch variety, but jeans in every color from apricot to zinc and fabrics that range from plain corduroys, velours and gabardines to showier crushed velvets, suedes, leathers and even fur. Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. reports jeans sales at "a crescendo"; Chicago's Saks Fifth Avenue puts the boom at "wildfire proportions, even among older women." Five years ago, there...
...changed the visions to nightmares as he ended the bout with two cuts that hit the top of my head, and the final touch which started out as a feint to the head but ended as a cut to the chest, which later developed in to a scarlet welt...
...strip Wednesday afternoon, with sweat dripping down my head, the welt' on my chest, a cut on the index finger of my free hand, and a general feeling of claustrophobia as I looked out of the cage that protected my head, I realized, as Falstaff had, that honor is only a word. Battle is only for fools...