Fifty years later, the girdle-like Spanx is back thanks to Sara Blakely, a brilliant woman who built a multimillion empire.

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Once he was searched, it was discovered that he had hidden 18 titi monkeys in a girdle around his waist.

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For women, we can achieve the same pressure with a belly girdle.

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Common Sense was written by an unprepossessing former girdle-maker named Tom Paine.

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The team says the species' snout, shoulder girdle and pelvis have features one would expect to see in an animal that dug into the ground.

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Just over a decade ago, Sara Blakely was shilling her invention, a modernized girdle, from a folding table in the foyer of Neiman Marcus.

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As we leave the city limits, we drive through a wide girdle of forest, planted as a green belt designed to be both a lung and a windbreak.

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