Word: calf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tune of Women's Wear Daily pronouncements that "The Longuette is now it," U.S. designers are elbowing each other to be next in line with the line. Norman Norell is silent on skirts, but has let it be known that he intends all fall coats to be mid-calf length. Jacques Tiffeau says that "you can't say to women, 'You've got to drop your hemline 20 inches.' " Still, he is doing just that for some coats and skirts, although he is keeping his dresses short and snappy. Bill Blass is turning...
...said Adlai Stevenson III. "Generally, I am happier when they are short," pronounced John D. Rockefeller IV. Sideburns? Speeches? Novels? Contempt sentences? What the two young politicians were discussing was hemlines. The subject heated up as a result of Mme. Georges Pompidou's triumphant American tour with those calf-clutching Longuettes from Paris. In women's eyes, at least, Mme. Pompidou just may have tipped the scales in the year's mini-midi-maxi skirmish. In the front line of the battle, Los Angeles-based James Galanos became the first American designer to drop all hemlines below...
...original Lost City meteorite probably weighed several hundred pounds, and it created a bright "fireball" trail that was seen by thousands of prairie dwellers before it exploded. A farmer named Phillip Halpain discovered a 9-ounce fragment of the meteor while he was searching for a lost calf. Earlier, a member of the Smithsonian's search party discovered a 21 pound chunk lying on a dirt road...
...WHAT does one do, for example, when one's female beagle is blissfully in heat, and one leaves his house to take a walk, and suddenly 47 assorted dogs, wild with lust, begin making messy love to your calf muscles. It is true, as they say in Dorchester, that "It's not the face you fuck," but the coiner of the phrase never took into account that bitch musk clings to one's clothes, and that male hounds are so blindly in love that they mistake corduroy for canine flesh...