Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they live, and planted it with jute. Like cotton, this crop requires arduous cultivation in the hottest season of the year. Most fun for broiling Bengali is "retting"-soaking the cut stalks in pools to ferment the gum out of the fibres, after which the farmers work waist deep in water at stripping the fibres from the stalks...
...fourth. The final between Budge and von Cramm was interrupted once. That was when Queen Mary arrived at her box just after the first set. Two years ago, Budge amused Wimbledon by greeting the Queen with a wave of his racket. Last week, more formal, he bowed from the waist. Before the interruption, Budge had won the first set, 6-3, taking the last five games in a row. After it, with almost unplayable serves and drives that made chalk fly from the corners of his opponent's court, he took the second set, 6-4, after von Cramm...
Sweating painfully uphill, rescuers soon found the wreckage. All the occupants were dead, two officers, the pilot, and mechanic. Twenty-five yards away they found the mangled body of still another officer, wrapped in a worn tan waterproof coat. Round his waist was a general's sash. It was some time before he could be identified: General Emilio Mola, second in command only to Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Longlegged, broadnosed General Mola was in his stocking feet, for ever since a gypsy told him that he was to die with his boots on, Rightist officers explained, he alwrays took...
...with excitement one day last week went all the 500 boys and girls of Los Angeles Junior College. The college faculty gathered to watch from a porch. Facing each other on the grass stood sturdy, curly-headed Student Robert Cousineau and wiry Student Harold Bauer, each stripped to the waist and each armed with a sword. As the excited audience chattered and peered, cameramen recorded the scene and newshawks watched intently. With full faculty approval, a duel was about to be fought. When Students Cousineau and Bauer finished posing, they put on fencing masks, but left the tips of their...
...Manuel Osorio de Zuniga by Goya, shows the little grandee with a gay sash round his waist, leading his pet magpie with a string tied to its leg while two big-eyed cats gaze hungrily from a corner...