These short-stemmed crops solved a basic problem: old-fashioned crops were long and leggy, so when fed with fertiliser they grew too tall and fell over.
You do not expect blaring disco music and strobes, leggy beauties and champagne first thing in the morning.
Mattel, which makes Barbie dolls, put on a fashion show to celebrate the leggy blonde's 50th birthday.
Phone-box "tart cards" for blonde bombshells and leggy señoritas could only catch so many eyes.
Most of them were pretty, leggy and pouting young women draped upon Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Fiats.
LAST month in Tashkent, on the second day of the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), I was taking breakfast in my hotel when a gorgeous leggy young woman in sunglasses and mini-skirt sashayed up to my table and sat down across from me, picking at the strawberries.
She was as anonymous as in the days when she would charge out of her parents' house in Formby, near Liverpool, in much the same old belted mac and her school panama hat, a leggy 14-year-old heading for the shore and the arms of her German lover.
Millions of online shoppers follow the thoughts of Miumiu and Viviandan, leggy twins from industrial Chongqing, who started posting pictures of themselves in the latest fashions, with wry observations on trends and prices, a decade ago.
A leggy congresswoman has enlisted his expertise to make some sense of the situation.
He soon finds himself unemployed, divorced and cold-shouldered by his friends and colleagues.In this section Breathlessly to victory Blood brothers My own bit of land Prudes and prejudice Philosopher's choice At the summit ReprintsAfter months of moping around in a prescription-drug daze, Bill drops into a midtown steakhouse and falls for the leggy manageress, Allison.
Conventional rice varieties were long and leggy.
