Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Women Aren't Ladies. Disagreements multiply in the areas of race and religion. The Miami Herald draws a careful distinction between white cops, who are always "policemen," and Negro cops, who are always "patrolmen." In the Memphis Commercial Appeal if a minister is white, he is "the Rev.," if Negro he is simply "Rev." The Denver Post is explicit on Roman Catholic ritual: "Mass is celebrated, said or read. High Mass is sung, never held. The Rosary is recited or said, never read." But the Miami News takes the easy way out: "Write it 'the mass (or rosary...
...Buffalo Evening News avoids "mention of hideous creatures or gruesome circumstances" and substitutes "glamorous" for "sexy"; the Commercial Appeal warns its reporters to "write nothing that will spoil the appetite." The Chicago Tribune permits "s.o.b.," but defines it as a "Trumanism." The Los Angeles Times, concluding that all women aren't ladies, ungallantly applies its conclusion: "A salesgirl or a saleswoman is not a saleslady, and a washerwoman is not a washlady, so a scrubwoman cannot be a scrublady." In Detroit, the News withholds the title of "Mr." from all males who are not Protestant clergy, dead...
There hasn't been a .400 hitter in baseball since 1941. And there aren't even many .300 hitters any more-only ten last year (five in each league), compared with 28 in 1950. How come? Last week in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, 40, who owns a .335 lifetime average and is getting ready to start his 21st season, put down some of the reasons...
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...that the end?" American literature fans will remember that one of these admiring belles was ultimately taken to bed, round-robin style, by three Yalies, until late in the idyllic Ft. Lauderdale vacation, when the Yalies simply abandoned the round-robin method. Which all proves that Ivy League boys aren't really so different after...