Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-dressed men at the ball describe themselves as "lawyers and businessmen." A man dressed as Peter Rabbit confessed to being a Boston policeman. A well-heeled Cambridge architect came with several friends just looking for a good party. And a Paul Rever look-alioke claimed he owned a bar in Baltimore's equivalent to Boston's Combat Zone. Martin Slobodkin '41, premier Boston socialite, and Boston Globe gossip columnist Bill Fripp served as judges for several costume contests...
...speaking her thoughts and expressing her curiousity. The reader resents, as Mira did, the male students' assumption that she is as free with her body as she is with her opinions. But we are less surprised than Mira when after a night spent dancing giddily in a bar, a friend has to whisk her away and lock her up to prevent a gang rape...
...group returned to Val's and turned on the news, awaiting some recap of the event. They were interrupted by a phone call from Val's daughter Chris, a freshman in college. She had been raped. Violence had come full circle since Mira's night in Kelly's Bar...
...study of users showed that 10% of those who tried the machine and were above the limit decided not to chance driving. But most bar owners and customers consider the machine a gag item, and some even compete for the highest score. In one Des Moines cocktail lounge, a waitress tells of two regulars who tied for the record. "You're supposed to be dead if you get the thing up to .50," says she, "but these guys both scored .49 and they didn't even look...
...warm weather, Beirut's St Georges swimming club, located next to the internationally renowned burned-out hotel of the same name, has reopened for swimming, sunning and girl watching Owner Michel Nader, who spent $500,000 to refurbish his club, left one bullet-riddled section of the bar as it was, "so people can remember and talk about what madness the civil war was." Another sign of returning normality: the reappearance of foreigners, including about 2,000 of the 5,000 Americans who lived in Beirut before the fighting...