Word: jacketful
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...President, said Gentlemen's Quarterly, has "inspired a new style trend, as the two-button suit will testify. The President's shoulders are broad; he needs a minimum of shoulder padding. Since he wears a 40 jacket but has a 33 waist, some waist suppression* is inevitable...
...American dash, functionalism and fit. In our President we have the man who fits this look perfectly." Only Irving Heller (sometime tailor for Harry Truman) demurred. He approved of the President's taste in shirts ("He has changed his collar space") but insisted that Kennedy's jacket buttons are "still...
...cloak-and-suiter term for a tapering jacket...
First, the two trucks waiting to transfer the equipment broke down and had to be pushed off the airstrip; then Simon Losala, Gizenga's provincial president, realizing that a dusty sport shirt was inappropriate for the occasion, rushed off to find a jacket and tie. When he returned, his tipsy words of welcome were: "I have been diddling around all day to ensure that these generators serve the population. In about three days or three weeks, I forget which, we shall have light again. It has meant a lot of work but, by God, I have...
Despite these outbursts against the United States, Russell seldom receved praise from the Kremlin. Moscow radio once called him "this philosophical wolf, whose dinner jacket conceals all the brutal instincts of a beast." This blast greeted his advocacy of the Baruch Proposal, the American scheme for internationalizing all nuclear armaments. In Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959) he remarks, "I thought, at the time, that it would be worth while to bring pressure to bear upon Russia and even, if necessary, to go so far as to threaten war on the sole issue of the internationalizing of atomic weapons...