Word: wraparounds
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...women. In its new Boutique, Sak's is showing "a world of witty fashions" selected in New York. There are tailored wool skirts in solids and tweeds, mohair and bulky knit sweaters and proportioned wool slacks. Sensible, stylish and comfortable all at once is Sak's grey flannel wraparound skirt sporting brown suede pockets. If your size is not on hand, Sak's will gladly order it for you from New York immediately...
Just 8 min. and 12 sec. later, after a makikomi-harai-goshi (wraparound sweeping hip throw), an okuri-ashi-harai (sweeping ankle throw) and a mune-gatame (chest hold), the Japanese lay exhausted on the tat ami (straw mat). The tall Dutchman towered over him in triumph. It was the most humiliating blow to Japanese pride since the Marianas turkey shoot, the Pacific air battle that polished off the remnants of Japanese air power in World...
...tropical heat, the massed marchers, representing 39 Ghanaian organizations, wilted by the score; stretcher-bearers darted back and forth between the ranks lugging out casualties. The show was stolen by the antics of hundreds of marching market mammies, clad in colorful, wraparound calico dresses and gaily colored turbans. As they began to step out, the band switched from Sousa marches to jazzy, Ghanaian High Life numbers. Swinging their enormous hips in rhythm to the music, the mammies pranced, jigged and jived by the broadly smiling Queen while Prince Philip bent double and slapped his knee in laughter...
...produced some first-rate performances, (London's Girl of the Golden West, RCA Victor's brilliant new Turandot, Columbia's Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok) too often the stereo disks appeal not to music lovers but to sound addicts, craving to be enveloped by that "wraparound" effect...
...along the docks here and there, families perch like terns as they munch their sandwiches, while over at the launching ramp, a black-and-white Pontiac with a black-and-white outboard runabout in tow backs tortuously toward the water. Pontiac and runabout have matching upholstery, matching fins, matching wraparound windshields...