Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks like the country." What she meant was that women are 52% of the nation's population, and last week close to 40% of the convention delegates were women-a dramatic jump over their 13% representation at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Decorative as the women were in their bell-bottom trousers, miniskirts, jeans and hot pants, they were not there to be on display but to seek power. Except for a couple of setbacks, they got enough to satisfy and even surprise them...
...whole trouble with this country is that the people are so used to the President's acting like he was made of Bell Telephone wire, some scrap metal and a couple of TV tubes that they think it has to be this way. When a statesman like George McGovern comes along and shows some one-on-one interest and some honesty, the people don't know a good guy when they...
...employees of the First National Bank of Eastern Pennsylvania report to the Dallas Village branch for work Monday morning in old clothes. The most disquieting aspect of South Main St., the hardest hit commercial area of town, was a ragged by persistent burglar alarm in the Bell Furniture Store which someone had accidently touched off in reopening the building. The alarm, which ran off its own power supply, always seemed about to die, but rang on in loud starts throughout the day. The crews of employees cleaning out shops along the street ignored the sound, however, just as they ignored...
From the panhandlers and hare Krishna drummers outside the Coop to bell-bottomed young professionals lunching upstairs at Barney's, from the little old ladies shopping for bedspreads at Woolworth's to the tight little knots of blue-collar worker who gather at Whitney's every night for a beer after work, Cambridge probably has as varied a population as any other six square miles in the country...
...almost any other corporate chief in the U.S. He so greatly personifies his company that top executives at competing Kodak nearly always refer to the Polaroid Corp. as "he" or "him." Says Kodak Vice President Van Phillips: "Someday Edwin Land will be ranked with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell." He quickly adds: "And George Eastman" (the Kodak founder...