Word: zigs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year Dior and his cohorts pass the word lo the American fashion industry that sheaths are the thing. Sheaths it is. Madame America fills her closets with sheaths, trims her figure appropriately, then what? Next year she finds she's supposed to zig where she used to zag. What to do? Send off the sheaths to the Salvation Army and engage a masseuse to rearrange her bumps...
Smashed Idol. In Communist shop-logic, every affirmative has in it the seed of its own negative, and every zig its zag, so there were many experts to say that nothing had in fact changed. It was true that Russia's new masters had only reviled the old tyrant in order to perpetuate his tyranny. But there was a new face in Russia, and a new song on its lips. The old song of Stalin's was a menacing basso proclaiming a defiant people encircled by a hostile world; now a mellower baritone pleasingly rendered...
Fred Rhinelander turned in three long runs for Eliot, the last one being called back on a penalty after he had zig-zagged forty yards to the Adams 30. Luke Lockwood and Dean Howells were defensive stalwarts for the Elephants...
...18th Congress (1939), on the eve of World War II, laid down a new zig in Russia's zigzag foreign policy. Stalin denounced the Western democracies for "urging Germany on to march farther East." Thus he foreshadowed his deal with the Nazis (the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939), which helped unleash Hitler's invasion of Poland. Stalin told the delegates: "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world...
...such matters accused President Truman of wavering and inconsistency on Korean policy. Coming from Robert Taft, the charge was doubly ironic. The Administration's policy of limiting the Korean war has been consistent from the beginning; Taft's record for the same period is a shameful mixture of zig-zag reasoning and equivocation. When ex-President Hoover announced his "Western Gibraltar" policy last January, Republican Policy Chairman Taft was quick to join him under the bed. Taft opposed the appointment of General Eisenhower; he also backed the Wherry "manifesto" against sending troops to Europe because the presence of American soldiers...