Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Londoners noticed a slender Oriental stalking through their streets...
...west, as the world had taken for granted, but along the fringes of the South China Sea. To keep Russia and China fighting back-to-back against the closing pincers, the Allies must keep a supply line to Russia open. The Archangel and the slender Caucasus lines might also be cut by Nazi arms. Only Vladivostok would then remain. Since the U.S. is committed to the delivery of aid to Russia, a Japanese attack on Siberia would be a direct assault on U.S. policy...
Subsequently, please take the issue of TIME which you would send me, roll it into a slender roll, locate your managing editor, and shove it down his throat...
Billy Conn had outboxed the champ for 12 rounds last spring. Nova spent three years in college (at California College of Agriculture) and was serious-minded in a way that reminded some people of Arch-Boxer Gene Tunney. This slender analogy had forced the odds on Louis down to 13 to 5 last week. Nova's studies in yoga also made him something of an unknown quantity, since fight fans do not know how seriously to take yoga, or how seriously Lou took it himself...
...chief trends of this ingenuity show in slender skirts with slits or "back droops" which fall much lower behind than in front; "front peplums" give fullness to tight skirts; the "deep armhole cut" and "soft shoulder...