Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon walked out on the porch, his arm around Mrs. Landon's waist. For five minutes the crowd would not let him talk. When they quieted down, Nominee Landon stepped into a circle of microphones and in high-pitched, quavering tones, began a stumbling, halting, repetitious little speech. "Your good wishes and goodwill touch Mrs. Landon and myself very deeply. . . ." Once his voice broke completely. Once he raised a finger to brush away tears behind his rimless spectacles. Finally he got through: "We shall always cherish the memory of this happy evening together...
...that TIME has made a gross misstatement, as those burning bodies were protected by members of this same body of men until the fire cooled sufficiently to allow them to be turned over to the undertaker. Perhaps TIME can answer why those bodies showed only slight charring from the waist to the shoulders, although other portions of the bodies were completely burned. We poor guessers think perhaps steel vests were protecting those bodies. Also why tear gas bombs enough to cause an army to shed tears could not drive them out of the house? There were souvenir hunters there...
...arrested next night for tossing liquor bottles, dishes, a suitcase and a typewriter out of the apartment window. Subdued with a nightstick, the gibbering Representative, shoeless and stripped to the waist, was carted to jail, spent two hours there before his secretary appeared with $25 bail...
This decision abruptly arrested a case which has kept California tongues wagging since Memorial Day 1933. That May morning a real estate agent and her client dropped in at the Lamson bungalow on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto. They found Lamson stripped to the waist. He had been burning rubbish in the backyard. Telling his callers to wait until he got a shirt on, Lamson vanished into the house. A few minutes later he opened the front door, cried: "My God, my wife has been murdered." Rushing in, the agent and client found the nude, dead body...
...outdoor rowing behind them the Varsity crew has settled down into the long, early-season grind. The first race is against Princeton and M.I.T. on May 2. Whiteside had not made any changes in the stern two oars nor in the bow pair but the waist four seems to be only moderately satisfactory if the minor but repeated changes he has made here are indicative of relatively greater weakness...