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Word: absentions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the dialect appeared after a wave of Irish immigrants settled in Brooklyn in the late 19th century. Moreover, Griffith finds that the trademark Brooklyn diphthong oi also appears in many Gaelic words; taoiseach (leader) and barbaroi (barbarians), for example. He also points out that the th sound is absent in both Gaelic and Brooklynese, in which it becomes a hard / or d (as in da dame wid tin legs). Some classic Brooklyn expressions, he adds, come directly from the Gaelic: whudda card (joker) is a corruption of caird (an itinerant tramp); put da kibosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Dem Were Da Days | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...very fine study of working class women in America entitled Absent from the Majority has recently been published under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee. Its author, Nancy Seifer, brings to light a set of figures which ought to be general knowledge. Women now comprise 40 per cent of the labor force. One third of all working women are the only bread-winners in their households; another 8 per cent are the major ones. And as of 1870, seven-eighths of all women who held jobs were working simply to make ends meet...

Author: By Barbara Fried, | Title: Women at Work | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

...Brian follows where duty leads, which is downward, to the linoleum floor of his office. But Wendy is not detached from her obsession. She flutters to the floor several times a week, like a napkin off a fat man's lap. When Brian is absent she writes rumbustious letters, one of which is intercepted by his beautiful, intelligent, talented and rather dull wife, 39-year-old Erica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Curriculum Vitae | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...negative attitudes toward the presidency [July 1] reflects an experience we had with our eight-year-old grandson. He told us that in his school play, he had taken the part of President Nixon. When we asked him how he was cast in that role, he explained: "I was absent when they gave out the parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1974 | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...present it to you." The circus, a metaphor for his world, is half dream, half nightmare. In its sideshow tents a puritanical schoolteacher is seduced by a syrinx-playing satyr, a gorgon turns an unbelieving harridan into "carnelian chalcedony," one of the harder varieties of building stone, and an absent-minded magician performs a couple of genuine miracles, transforming wine into water and raising a man from the dead. The show under the big top is even more spectacular. It offers a unicorn that pops balloons with its horn, a sphinx that asks riddles, a Walpurgisnacht revel attended by witches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seduction by Syrinx | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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