Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory of the Good Life. Thus an errant wife who has drunk and danced through the night is startled by the birds of dawning: "The pristine light and the loud singing reminded her of some ideal-some simple way of life, in which she dried her hands on an apron and Will came home from the sea-that she had betrayed...
America's men were reared with rubber nipples and talcum powder to an apron-strung neurosis. Homosexuality (8,000,000 in the U.S. at last estimate) went on the upswing--Dad had the only woman worth wanting. And Father became the fall-guy for every situation comedy and Sunday color comic--the benign, well - meaning, oft - stumbling, ever - bungling apex of the Oedipus triangle...
TIME does well to display the extracurricular 8,000-word fizzle on the Harvard apron. Throwing stones at church windows is no more becoming with a Harvard accent than it is when done by the kid across the track. Bartley should be spanked...
...past meetings, Stubbins has considered construction of an underground stage, so that the building will harmonize with the surroundings and the street noise can be minimized. Other features which might have been included in the sketches approved yesterday are a library, a workshop theatre, and an adjustable apron on the main stage which can be raised and lowered to meet various production demands...
...ground. Since then, SAC has learned how to get B-52 heavy-jet and B-47 medium-jet bombers airborne, hydrogen bombs in their bellies, within an astonishing seven minutes of alarm klaxon's howl (including two minutes for taxiing down a 10,000-ft. apron to the runway). SAC has keyed its 3,700 combat crews so tautly to what SAC Commanding General Thomas Sarsfield Power calls "the compression of time in the Atomic Age" that SAC is even designing a new type of slip-on shoe to save alert crews the few seconds spent on fumbling with...