Word: zippering
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...Take yer hatsoff!" cried a cop in brogue as seniors, debating the advantages of hook-and-eye over zipper gowns, shuffled by the statue of the founder of our nation's oldest and richest institution. Across the Common, where the girls commenced, it was all over by the kissing; for Harvard, only a dry run at the "Rump of Sever...
...various times," the judge recalls, "the court has witnessed the collapse of a chair under the weight of a state trooper," while "the justice got the zipper on his gown caught in his tie and sat out an entire session thus involved, with the tie hanging out like the tongue of a Saint Bernard." The court, of course, had some serious cases, not the least of which involved a woman who complained violently about speeding on Mount Vernon Road. When state troopers finally set up a roadblock, "the lady who made all the fuss was herself picked up for unreasonable...
...below top estimates. But Willem de Kooning's flowing landscape, Merritt Parkway (TIME, May 18, 1959), garnered his top auction price, an even $40,000. And for the first time a Robert Rauschenberg was put up for bids. A 1959 "combine" (it includes a tie and a zipper) called Summer Storm popped right through the ceiling, to $13,000, or nearly twice the estimated price...
...their bodies was scrubbed with detergent. Their heads were shampooed and their fingernails trimmed and cleaned. To keep down bacteria that normally live inside the nose, Dr. Haynes gave them an antibiotic. Then the patients were put to bed in the pre-sterilized Life Island, and its long zipper was closed...
...occasional Givenchy). So do Marlene Dietrich, the Kennedy sisters, Natalie Wood, and Edgar Bergen's daughter Candice. Elizabeth Taylor is a shade too "buxom," says Hanson but she bought $3,000 worth of Jax clothes anyway last month. One reason for the slacks' close, nude fit: a zipper up the back that doesn't bulge like side zippers...