Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average at Erasmus Hall High School was in the 90s all the way. She worked in the evenings at Choy's Orient, the local wontonnery. "I loved the idea of belonging to a small minor ity group," she says. "It was the world against us in the Chinese restaurant." And she worked on the personality that was to be Barbra. "I used to spend a lot of time and money in the penny arcades taking pictures of myself in those little booths. I'd experiment with different colored mascara on my eyes, try out all kinds of different...
...court, groaned, "The Yanks will murder us on this," and ordered a new court to be built immediately-out of sand, an old Indian recipe guaranteed to take the bounce out of the ball, to say nothing of the Yanks. On the appointed day, the temperature was in the 90s, flocks of cawing crows hovered low overhead, and Indian fans heckled the Americans' both from the stands and from nearby apartment-house balconies. When California's Dennis Ralston blasted a serve past Krishnan and the linesman signaled a clean ace, the galleries set up such a hullabaloo that...
...which has been translated as "Floating Scum upon the Water." Among dip-minded suburban housewives it enjoys minor fame as the birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet upstate New York town with no visible means of support...
Matched Footmen. A couple of centuries ago, writes Turner, a gentleman with a comfortable income of ?2,000 a year "was betraying his class if he employed fewer than six women servants and five menservants; middle-class ladies in their 90s could boast that they had never made a pot of tea in their lives, a wealthy Englishman had a Frenchman to stir his soup, another Frenchman to comb his hair, an Italian to make his pastry, and half a dozen Englishmen to iron his Times, and his wife had a Frenchwoman to powder her back and an Englishman...
...accomplish Ampex's turnaround, Bill Roberts has had to neglect his low-90s golf game and better-than-average tennis, and sacrifice virtually all semblance of family life. But now, says he, "it's nearing the point where I'm beginning to be satisfied and lead a normal life. Today, we're running this company with predetermined objectives, not just taking a product and carrying it one little step further...